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Try marketing this to paleo dieters, but go a step further. The buyer sets a budget and rough guidelines but otherwise instacart makes all the food decisions. Real hunter gatherers didn't have a lot of choice in their meals!


Yes, let's base our business model on a niche fad diet.


Sarcasm because... nobody has ever made money riding the wave of fads. Hmmm.


A diet we've been eating for 3 million years is a fad? Wow, I'd like to know what you think of Italian food then, a nano fad?


Mankind did a lot of things for millions of years that we don't do anymore, so I don't see how that's relevant.


It's relevant because they were mostly disease free on that diet. We switched our diet on a dime and now we're sick.


I have no idea what you're talking about. Disease is less prevalent now than it has ever been in history. People live longer and better lives than ever before.


>Disease is less prevalent now than it has ever been in history.

While I fault the parent for lack of nuance, I fault you for the same. "Disease" is a complicated thing which has many dimensions. What you're pointing out is that the low-hanging fruit are sorted and that's great! Parent was saying [edit: I assume] that chronic diseases were less frequent and we have epidemiological evidence that was the case.


Not that I agree with shanev, but this is misleading. If anything, modern health has improved in spite of our (shitty) diets.


That's a little facetious, isn't it? The fact that there is a fad around this diet has nothing to do with it's provenance. It's a fad diet for most people because they adopted it because of the fad and they will drop it just as quickly. That doesn't mean it's a bad diet, just that fashion is fickle.




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