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by hntrader 1915 days ago
Highly sceptical of this if we're talking about the non-animal part of the diet.

Hadza ate only 4 non-animal foods, which is much less than what's available at a supermarket.

Hunter gatherers would've had a more diverse diet when it came to meats, eating the entire animal including most organs, but that's more cultural than what's specifically available at the supermarket (it's pretty easy to get organ meat at the supermarket and especially the butcher, but most people don't opt-in).

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Right, but worth noting that raw beef, for example, contains a lot more nutrients than cooked beef[1], and includes most of the essential vitamins you would need to live.

Other parts of the animal, like the liver, would provide sources for A and B12, etc.

    > Because of its content in highly valuable
    > nutrients such as iron, zinc, selenium, fatty
    > acids, and vitamins, meat is a unique and
    > necessary food for the human diet in order
    > to secure a long and healthy life, without
    > nutritional deficiencies.[2]
[1]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2621....

[2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03091...