The American Diet, if one may use the term to describe a fairly broad pattern, is so strange from a metabolic and evolutionary point of view that it simply cannot be used as some kind of norm. It is poor thinking to call a diet that does not mimic the present American Diet a fad diet.
That line of argument falls into the tyranny of the present fallacy that seems to argue that our times and practices are the best or have a privileged status. They don’t. In fact, our diet is of very recent origin and so are the quantities of calories we consume. Most of the so-called foods we consume entered our diet less than 100 years ago, some just 50 years ago. This is a drop in the bucket of time over the long course of human history and comes to nothing in evolutionary terms.
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