[LittleOldLady]

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Nutrition can be a lot like relgion and politics. So I will start of by admitting that I am biased. I am a survival/primitive skills instructor and make a lot of my decisions about diet (and other things) based on human evolutionary history. Things that have been around for a couple hundred years or less are highly suspect (White flour and white sugar) for me.

I tend away from factory processed foods such as soy products like soymilk (already discussed by Cosmo- I agree with most if not all of what Cosmo has said) and towards naturally processed food (usually fermented) yogurt for example. It is very difficult to get raw milk products (unpasturized) but that is what I get when possible.

I eat wild meat or meat raised by people I know,or sometimes settle for organic meat from the store- Almost all the products I buy are organic.

When I am not lazy I like to sprout or ferment grain products as raw grains have digestion-inhibiting enzymes.

NO hydrogenated oils- like Crisco or margarine

The best book in this vein that I have read is "Nourishing Traditions" by Sally Fallon.

It is very difficult to eat this type of diet in an urban area- you need access to wild areas and friends who raise animals/vegetables/fruit or a place to do it yourself. One of the many reasons I can't spend too much time in an urban area.

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The so-called hunter-gatherer diet makes a certain amount of sense to me. That is, eating foods that would have been available prior to the agricultural revolution. So, eggs would have been available only during nesting season. No dairy products after weaning from mother's milk. No grains. Lots of fruits, vegetables, berries, and nuts--preserved by drying when possible. Honey, but no sugar. Fermented beverages. Fish and seafood--easy to catch and always available in a water source. Occasional small portions of lean meat--hunting is harder than gathering, wild animals are generally lean, and what is caught must be shared among the whole group. Obviously no chee-tos or soda.

It seems to me that given the relatively short time since the agricultural revolution with the growing and processing of grains and the domestication of animals leading to the consumption of dairy products, more and fattier meats, and more eggs, humankind must still be biologically adapted to the hunter-gatherer menu. I know that the "caveperson" diet has been recommended by some popular nutritionists, but I do not have any personal experience with it. I don't think it would hurt to try it.

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How, exactly, do cheeseburgers fit into this?

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Easy--just omit the cheese and bun, and be sure the meat is very lean. Raw onion rings and tomato slices are fine.