Increased consumption of nuts and seeds, potentially occurring seasonally, may have historically signaled the body to gain weight.

“I think it also speaks to a really interesting idea that perhaps our exposure to linoleic acid may have been seasonal in our history and that increased consumption of nuts and seeds may have happened in the winter or the fall and perhaps that did lead to some increase in obesity which was beneficial for those of us living hundreds of thousands of years ago during an actual winter period when food may have been more scarce”