If you take a look at Asians in the United States, the children are
noticeably taller and stronger-boned than their immigrant parents. This is
obviously due to the newly adopted western diet that is much higher in
animal protein and calories than the rice-based diet their parents and
grandparents ate. A casual walk around a California shopping mall is proof
enough of this.

Arthur McConnachie
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> By the way it is by no means proven that paleolithic eating habits caused
> paleolithic hunter-gatherers to be healthier than neolithic people. You
> assume it is true, and I join you in that assumption, but it is only an
> assumption. The evidence for it is not so strong as it may appear.
>
> We have only the fossils of ancient people. Most of them are adult
fossils.
> Those adult fossils seem to show greater stature and lesser incidence of
> disease in paleolithic vs neolithic. Ray and the rest of here accept the
> hypothesis that diet is responsible for these differences in the fossil
> records, but these changes in the fossil records can be explained also by
> alternative hypotheses.