These sentences are devoid of useful advice Dr. David L. Katz

The Inuit never ate a “reasonable variant on the theme of wholesome foods, mostly plants…” because those foods were not available in the environment north of the Arctic Circle. And yet, they somehow thrived.

Your emphasis on evolutionary adaptation for diet is sound reasoning. However, your oversight of the deleterious effects of agriculture is serious.

Homo sapiens are not evolved to eat cultivated crops. The evolutionary time frame has been too short.

That doesn’t mean that berries are bad. It means that we are evolved for hunting, gathering, and periods of fasting. Access to plant foods in particular were subject to seasonal variations.

Industrialized food processing technologies have removed the variation, much to our detriment.

A simplistic, Cartesian approach to “science” was never well suited to decode complex systems like human metabolism. That doesn’t mean science isn’t a useful process for creating new knowledge about nutrition. It means we must resist the temptation to oversimplify, to post hoc rationalize, and to extrapolate from controlled experiments that contradict experience.