Paleo-Diet Myth

[Minimalist]

Hmmm....

http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/stats...xpectancy/




Thanks, but no thanks, fungus eaters!

You have to take account of high levels of child morality, if you survived childhood you could live on average to about 50.

Child mortality starts to drop about the same time as everyone else so while true it doesn't really effect the point.

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/4818.html

Exploiting newly discovered data from the 1900 Census of Population, Samuel Preston and Michael Haines present their findings in a volume that is not only a pioneering work of demography but also an accessible and moving historical narrative. Despite having a rich, well-fed, and highly literate population, the United States had exceptionally high child-mortality levels during this period: nearly one out of every five children died before the age of five.