Is the Paleo Diet a Myth? Cavemen Likely Ate a Plant-Based Diet

• Attend the Juneteenth Soul Food Festival at Lofty Spaces in Dallas on Sunday, June 16, event starts at 12PM. although it is not a fully vegan event, but they will have vegan options available. Follow the link for more information.

• Also on Sunday, Dallas Vegetarians are having a meetup at 5:30PM. Click here for more info.

• More and more universities are including plant based meals.

• We often relate sportspeople and their strength usually with meat protein but here are 14 wrestlers who are vegan or vegetarian.

• Nestle has come out with plant based forks and spoons, in a bid to reduce plastic use.

• Vegan eats on the menu at The Cheesecake Factory

• News out of UK, a local council voted to serve only vegan foods at their events.

• A paywalled article, but it goes over how City of Bolder is using Soda tax to promote eating fruits and vegetables among the low income population.

Is the Paleo Diet a Myth? Cavemen Likely Ate a Plant-Based Diet

• New research challenges the idea that our Paleolithic ancestors ate a heavily meat-based "paleo" diet. Evidence from ancient remains indicates hunter-gatherer groups likely got up to 80% of their calories from plant sources like grains, tubers, acorns, etc.

• While meat was consumed, the notion of hunter-gatherers primarily subsisting on animal proteins is contradicted by findings of substantial plant food consumption and tools for processing plants.

• The origins of cooking, not just increased meat-eating, may have been a key dietary shift allowing humans to extract more energy from food to fuel brain growth.

• Modern populations like the Tsimane who still forage exhibit low rates of diseases like obesity and heart disease when eating a traditional diet high in plants, in contrast to those consuming more processed Western foods.

Link to the article on People