The traditionalist asks: “Did my great-great-grandparents eat this?” Research on ancestral diets shows humans thrived for millennia on whole foods prepared simply—meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruits, nuts, fermented foods. What’s absent: refined sugar, refined flour, vegetable oils, industrial processing. Traditional eating also meant meals at tables, not products from packages, and natural gaps between eating.
This companion covers what traditional eating looked like, traditional patterns, and applying the principle. (4 min read)