How do you get healthy food to actually taste good?

[Loony BoB]

and I just want to say I've heard a lot of things to the contrary regarding this and I would therefore state that it's probably pure speculation. They may not have made use of grain/potatoes and dairy products back then, but they certainly would have had an easier time gathering from plants than from animals and I suspect this would have made up a large amount of their diet. Perhaps not most, but certainly a good chunk. Fruits, berries, nuts, fungi, sweet potatoes, carrots... stuff like that. Also, back then most of the meat was eaten raw. Have fun with that.

Gathering fruits and vegetables would certainly make up a decent amount of food at certain times of the year. In more tropical climates humans could probably do it year round no less. But for most of us that are descended from good old fashioned Northern European white folk (not to mention people from other parts of the world such as various indigenous North American people's closer to the North Pole than otheers), until the advent of farming you wouldn't be able to base the entire diet on that stuff, and until we started farming grains and the like, getting it to store through the winter is pretty much out. Hell, if you tried to live as a hunter gatherer in most of Canada without ever eating meat it's a safe bet you would die since nothing is really growing for six months out of the year.

But what Quin said about being able to thrive on just protein and fat is pretty much true. They're the only two macro nutrients the body absolutely needs. You can cut out carbs completely and be pretty much fine in the long run (assuming your supplementing well and such. It was a bit easier for our ancestors when eating nutrient rich organ meat was considered the thing to do). Cut out protein or fat completely though and you'll die an early death. It may take a long time because our bodies hate us like that, but it will happen.

I was referring to Quin's suggestion that you could thrive on meat and fat alone (or "almost exclusively"). I am in no way suggesting that they went without, but more suggesting that it isn't as "almost exclusively meats & fats" as he might think. And yeah, Northern Canada might not have as much fruit growing on the trees most of the year, but the population of the Inuit isn't exactly booming and their diet usually includes a number of less traditional organs from less traditional animals as well as vegetation (and have fun drinking fresh seal blood), so the idea that you could emulate that by only eating chicken, beef and pork from your local supermarket is not something I would suggest in a thread such as this one. Also, the life expectancy of the Inuit isn't great compared to the rest of Canada. Those people eating their high veg diets are perhaps getting a better deal when you look at things that way.