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Experts slam Caveman Diet and say early humans were mostly VEGETARIAN

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Caveman Diet , also known as the Paleo Diet , is a weight-loss craze where calorie-counters pick foods they think early humans may have eaten.

Instead, cavemen were mostly vegetarians whose diets featured plant-based foods such as acorns, cereals, legumes, and aquatic plants.

Researchers from Bar-Ilan University say the discovery underscores the importance of plant foods in the evolution of our ancestors.

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