Kristen Gremillion, associate professor of anthropology at Ohio State University, has written a new book on the eating habits of ancient man called Ancestral Appetites: Food in Prehistory (Cambridge University Press, 2011). In it, she correctly points out that the current debates over diet dogma are basically meaningless; humans are omnivores, and have always adapted to eat what was available to them in a given time and place.
I think that's a message that more of us need to hear, these days. Instead of arguing over whether sweet potatoes are "paleo", maybe we could just focus on eating real, nutrient dense foods that meet our nutritional needs?
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