I would wonder what evidence there was that Raw women ovulate on a regular basis without menstruation. Basing it on whether or not they have, or "can have" children would be far from reliable seeing as all that means is they ovulated at the time of conception. Maybe they never had before and maybe never would after. The only way to know would be extensive monitoring, other than that it's simply conjecture.
And the fact that the article claims that non-human primates are "frugivores" or fruit eaters, which is inaccurate, makes me even more skeptical. Considering that 1) meat was a huge portion (some paleoanthropologist would claim 50-90%) of the diets of our hunter-gatherer ancestors for the vast majority of human history and 2) the advent of cooking technologies drastically changed the physical structure of the human body due to not needing to digest a completely raw diet (this includes brain>jaw ratio lol. we have bigger brains, smaller jaws), most of their "this is natural" claims are debunked.
Not to offend anyone who chooses this as a way of life, if it works for you then great, more power to you but claiming it's "natural", "the way humans were meant to be", "what our bodies were designed to eat" or worse yet "getting back to the way our ancestors ate" is just plain untrue. And it irritates me. If you are going to publish an article based on science and history then actually base it on science and history! You can believe anything you want to believe, but not having basic historical background on the subject you're promoting takes away credibility. At the moment it looks like a scientific paper but without a whole lot of science. I would be interested in looking at the works cited because my suspicion (complete assumption at this point) would be that very few sources outside the raw movement were used. I tried to verify this but the link isn't working for me.
Forgive my little rant there but this is a pet peeve of mine.
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