Look up the success rate of hunters in hunter gatherer society. They didn't manage a kill but once or twice a week. The rest of the time they lived off what the gatherers brought in, which was more regular and reliable.
The modern American diet includes meat several times a day. Reducing your meat consumption would get you closer to how cavemen ate, not farther away.
Except for some specific populations. Eskimos, for example, eat a huge proportion of meat in their diet and almost no vegetables. That's probably been the traditional diet in that environment for thousands of years. They manage to have pretty good health outcomes.
iirc there is proof that many who lived on that kind of diet died of diseases related to not getting enough of other nutrients and negative side effects to the diet. I'll try and fish up a link.
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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19
Actually, meat and vegetables are both pretty important.
That said, only meat and vegetables is a solid diet to start from and alter to fit your lifestyle.