Humans are omnivores. Eating along an animal/plant gradient, with animal foods at 20-90% of the energy intake of hunter gatherer communities. The #PlanetaryHealthDiet (dietary part of #TheGreatReset), brings it down to levels unknown in ancestral models. With red meat at 1% 🧐 
100% plants also allowed. Populations that are situated in the proposed range do exist, however. But they're also characterized by high levels of stunting in infants & children. Correlation >< causation, sure. But still looks like a dangerous experiment. Don't let them fool you.
Lots more on the why & how of this #PlanetaryHealthDiet in this meta-thread.
https://twitter.com/fleroy1974/status/1323260451560501250?s=20
The diet is very similar to the macrobiotic diet.
Which was essentially based on spiritual beliefs, but ends up in the same recommendations
Nonetheless, just as the @PlanetaryHealthDiet, the ideas have been portrayed as evidence-based, referring to scientific articles.
But in scientific literature, we *also* find articles that describe stunting, severe malnutrition, & nutrient deficiencies, especially in young populations.
Moreover, the main scientist promoting the macrobiotic approach turned out to be a dangerous guru.
In conclusion: diets with the proposed level of animal source foods of the #PlanetaryHealthDiet (low-income countries or macrobiotic Westerners) are a mismatch with our evolutionary past *and* associated with nutritional havoc in young populations.
We should be *very* careful.
We should be *very* careful.
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