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Red meat wreaks havoc on gut and drives inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in study on mice (newatlas.com)

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

Are mice evolved to eat red meat?

They haven't. So haven't we. 😄

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

You mean a few million years of evolution couldn't completely redesign our digestive system? Weak bruh.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago

We haven't been eating like this for a few million years, humans mostly subsisted off of whatever they could get. Eating red meat every day, or even every week, is very modern.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Homo primates (archaic humans like Homo Erectus) have been hunting prolifically for about 2 million years. That’s part of what makes us Homo; the large calorie surplus from big game hunting allowed our brains to grow larger.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

afaik it's inconclusive, and just as likely that big game was rare and supplemented by many other forms of hunting and gathering. It's a lot easier to spear a fish or steal some eggs than to spend a whole day tracking down an elk until it collapsed from exhaustion.

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

More modern research does not suggest this made up most of the consumption for humans even before agriculture. For instance,

Our results unequivocally demonstrate a substantial plant-based component in the diets of these hunter-gatherers. This distinct dietary pattern challenges the prevailing notion of high reliance on animal proteins among pre-agricultural human groups

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02382-z