eli5 why we have such complex dietary requirements. Did our ancestors thousands of years ago have extremely well balanced diets?
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This girl, as of 2016, had only eaten chicken nuggets and some french fries for 15 of her 17 years of life.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2092071/Stacey-Irvine-17-collapses-eating-McDonalds-chicken-nuggets-age-2.html
She collapsed from anemia (low iron); which to me means that if she ate an occasional cheeseburger she would be fine.
It challenged what I thought about needing a varied diet ever since.
Now there are people doing the Lion Diet who just eat beef and water, and say they are the healthiest they have ever been in their life (free from chronic illness that they used to suffer from)
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