Los alimentos que nos hicieron humanos

Currently, numerous dietary strategies are used to prevent metabolic diseases and weight loss. Some of them do not have an appropriate physiological-nutritional basis and do not consider the genetic changes that have occurred recently, so they can be harmful to human health. This review aims to explain the genetic mutations that happened during human evolution from the first hominids to Homo sapiens and how they have influenced the way we eat; some mutations promoted brain development and other mutations are related to the digestion of nutrients such as lactose and starch. This review also explains the influence of the domestication of food and the practice of cooking on human nutrition. In addition, we have tried to justify the current recommendations about the caloric distribution of macronutrients based on the important influence of genetic changes and adaptations that have occurred in our species.