This is a short excerpt from an interview with Dr. Loren Cordain, a proponent of the Paleolithic diet. The interviewer asks him about intermittent fasting:
JP - I've been following the recent findings about so-called "alternate day fasting" and "intermittent fasting." Do you think that moving away from a modern, three-meal-a-day menu plan has a place in the paleolithic model of nutrition?
Dr. Cordain - The available evidence suggests that there likely were two norms for meal patterns in foragers. First, a large single meal at the end of the day wherein the hunters brought their spoils back to the group and/or the gatherers brought their food back to the group for a central meal. Men almost always were the hunters, whereas women, children, the elderly and men were the gatherers. If food existed in camp then everyone stayed in camp and tended to nibble and snack all day long. Hence three formal meals were not the norm and intermittent fasting was a common pattern, particularly among the hunters.
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