If the cavemen did it or ate it, it’s got to be good for you. Right?

We are living through an intriguing period of romanticism, one that tips eagerly into primitivism.
 In the Romantic era, people glorified the medieval period; today, we look further back for life guidance. If the cavemen did it or ate it, then it’s good for you, because that’s how nature intended. “Natural diet” refers to the current vogue for super-healthy eating, in which anything processed is viewed as akin to poison. The theory is that the modern food industry is full of terrible toxins, and has divorced us from the joys of the land (and, worse, made us fat). “Return to the hunter-gatherer style of eating” its supporters urge, with special praise heaped on bone broth, presumably because the emphasis on “bone” makes it sound a bit caveman-y.
 But while bones are big in the natural diet, logic is not. continue