Originally Posted by
noglider
Different bodies have different requirements. A one-size-fits-all diet is not a worthy goal. I had a nearly meatless diet for at least 20 years. My health improved when I resumed eating meat. I know there are people who do best with little or no meat.
Although this is true, I wonder how different those requirements could be.
I could imagine that, like with many other things in nature, these requirements would follow a somewhat bell-shaped curve, with some people doing better with more or less meat, or respectively plants.
But, in the end, as humans we get
complete proteins from fish, eggs, meat, and dairy, and
incomplete ones from plants, nuts, and seeds, and natural selection would dictate that the former sources are the preferable ones
in general (not to mention that they also come with much more bio-available nutrients, like, I don't know, B12, K2, zinc, iron, calcium, taurine, creatine, ...).
I don't know if it is even debatable in science, but I think that humans are omnivores, yet more animal-based. It is for sure an evolutionary advantage to be able to process plant-based foods, but they are not really essential.