As evolutionary scientists from around the world loaded their plates with fish, potatoes, and pork at a lunch buffet at the Berlin Medical Historical Museum, talk naturally turned to what's best for humans to eat. Compared with us, our ancestors ate "meat. More protein, less refined carbohydrates, and no milk," pronounced exercise physiologist Loren Cordain of Colorado State University, Fort Collins, who advocates a similar regimen to prevent disease. (He passed up the pasta.) At a nearby table, though, his colleagues ate ... pudding.
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