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What Is the Natural or Original Diet for Humans? Do Any Other Animals Develop Food Allergies?

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I'm not asking for philosophical guessing. This might be a question for those who have more knowledge of veternary science, comparative anatomy or maybe anthropology. From what I know about animals, they don't have food allergies but most have much narrower diets. Are food allergies a product of something different about our immune system? Do other animals have no eosinophylls in their blood?

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Gnomon April 12, 2009 at 6:44 pm: Humans have had different diets in different periods of their evolution. At one point they would have been vegetarian, living in forests or jungles. They developed a good sense of colour at this point, for telling the difference between ripe and unripe fruits.

Later, as the African jungles started to recede and turn into Savanna, humans turned into hunters and adapted to a diet with much more meat in it. So the modern human is much more omnivorous than most animals. But bears and dogs would also have an omnivorous diet.