Well, the Palaeolithic era started officially c.2.5 million years ago, with an even sharper increase in meat-eating c.2.3(?) million years ago - the advent of cooking is usually accepted as being at c.250,000 to 300,000 years ago. Strictly speaking, the terms "Palaeolithic Diet" and "Hunter-gatherer Diet" should be kept separate, as many hunter-gatherer tribes in the Neolithic era went in for grain- and dairy-consumption.


The agricultural revolution was well under way by about 9,000 years ago, with dairy being seemingly introduced some time after grains.

The beginning of food-processing is usually taken to be the time when Pasteur published all his results re germs(1862 onwards), giving companies a way to keep storing (junk)-foods for much longer periods before spoilage.

The beginning of the fast-food diet is usually taken to be the end of the 2nd world war as that was the time when intensive-farming became much more prevalent(though, of course, artificial fertilisers already arrived decades earlier).

Geoff


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> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:23:51 -0400
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> Subject: Re: Timetable of diets
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> Could someone please tell me the time (years) period of the Paleo, 
> hunter-gatherer diet; Agricultural revolution (marked increase in grains); Industrial 
> revolution (beginning of food processing); and what they consider the beginnning 
> of the current "fast food" diet? Thank you for your help.
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