Flashback Friday: Paleopoo - What We Can Learn from Fossilized Feces

Ancient dietary practices based on analyzing the fiber content of fossilized human waste can give us insights for combating the modern obesity epidemic.

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Isn’t that a really fascinating mechanism? All along I was thinking of fiber more from just an energy density perspective (as in my video Eating More to Weigh Less: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/eati..., but the appetite-suppressing hormones are a whole new frontier. That underscores the urgency of the fact that 96% of Americans don’t even reach the recommended minimum intake of fiber (see my video Do Vegetarians Get Enough Protein? https://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-v...)

Other paleo videos can be found here: nutritionfacts.org/topics/paleolithic-diets

For bowel function in the modern age, see, for example, How Many Bowel Movements Should You Have Every Day? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-...) and Should You Sit, Squat, or Lean During a Bowel Movement? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/shou...)

My latest on fiber:
Diverticulosis: When Our Most Common Gut Disorder Hardly Existed (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/dive...)
The Five to One Fiber Rule (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-...)
Is the Fiber Theory Wrong? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-t...)

And my latest on what your gut bacteria can do for you is on the microbiome page (nutritionfacts.org/topics/microbiome):

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