Contradictions of the paleolithic-paleo diet - milk and derivatives

The new "Holy Grail" of nutrition and dietetics has recently been unearthed: the paleodiet.

Also called "cave diet", the paleodieta intends to re-propose the type of diet that characterized the human populations that lived in the period preceding the discovery of agriculture and breeding, which took place about 10,000 years ago; it suggests consuming only foods obtained through hunting and gathering:

• Fruits and berries
• Seeds and nuts species
• Caterpillars, worms, snails, snails, insects, crustaceans and rarely eggs and honey
• Carrion of other animals

and advises against:

• Cereals
• Legumes
• Milk and derivatives

... obviously it is hoped that everything will be revised in a contemporary key. Let us dwell for a moment on the last group of foods mentioned above and not recommended: milk and derivatives.
Among fitness fanatics (and not only) a rather curious "creed" is spreading: MILK AND ITS DERIVATIVES HARM AND MAKE YOU FAT! According to them, the reasons are many ... but the most quoted concerns the presence of "lactose", a disaccharide contained only in milk and which, in order to be digested, requires the action of a specific intestinal enzyme called "lactase", whose genetic expression is located in "chromosome 2". It is ascertained that, in the Paleolithic (from 2.5 million years ago to 10,500 BC), the consumption of fresh milk was not a "widespread habit, due to the absence of intestinal lactase in humans.
Now comes the fun! According to the latest updates, the consumption of this food has been conceived and disseminated WITH FORCE in Europe by some oriental populations ...

Article taken from "The revolution" made the milk ", by Fabio Sindici - THE PRESS - Wednesday 24 November 2010 - TUTTOSCIENZE pag. 27

"According to the researchers of the Leche project (milk in Spanish and acronym for Lactase persistence and Early Cultural History of Europe) the milk revolution took place in Central-Eastern Europe about 8 million years ago (in the Paleolithic: from 9,500 BC to 8,000 BC) and preceded the introduction of agriculture and livestock was shortly thereafter (5,300 BC). The Asian populations migrated en masse to the west (through the Bosphorus Strait) and brought with them herds and flocks; on their way they found the indigenous European stocks composed of There WERE NOT JUST SIMPLE DISCUSSIONS! Real "death pits" have been found (such as that of Talheim, Germany) containing the remains of entire tribes and clans. Furthermore, analyzes on the remains indicate the presence of two completely different genetic strains, suggesting an absolute ban on the crossing of the two ethnic groups. milk allowed greater population growth in ranchers' villages which quickly overwhelmed the (culturally less sophisticated) hunters; after a few centuries the lactose-resistant peoples dominated Europe.
Curiously, the ancestors of the Asian populations did not possess the "lactase enzyme and, like many others, used this food to produce yogurt and cheeses; it is in Europe that the winning mutation took place over the course of a hundred generations".
The results of this research have been published in specialist journals such as "Nature" and "BMC Evolutionary Biology".
This shows that, contrary to what is reported by the paleodiet, the consumption of milk and its derivatives does not represent an "unnatural" behavior, quite the contrary! The peoples who obtained lactase for the digestion of cow's milk conquered a demographic, evolutionary and technological level much higher than their opponents, obtaining the victory.

Bibliography:

• The revolution was made by milk - F. Sindici - The press - Wednesday 24 November 2010 - TUTTOSCIENZE pag. 27

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