Milton Mills: Whats Wrong with the Paleo Diet? The Starch Solution and Why Salt is a Scapegoat. Are Humans Designed To Eat Meat? The Role of Meat in the Human Diet - John McDougall. Nutritional Science - Discussion Of Human Eating Habits The World Over. 6. Discussion Of Human Eating Habits The World Over Diets vary widely over the face of the globe. We have the Lapps and the Eskimos who live pretty much as carnivores on one end of the spectrum, and we have groups of peoples in the equatorial regions who live as almost total fruitarians at the other end of the spectrum. 6.1 The Origins of Paradises and Edens Up until relatively recent times in human history, humans have been primarily fruitarians.
All over Europe and much of the Far East there were walled enclosures of heavy stone where people resided and tended orchards. Many words with roots of ava, and aval (such as Valhalla and avalon) evolved from terms born of a fruit culture. 6.2 The Origins of Today's Eating Practices If humans are natural fruitarians, how have they come to stray from the diet of their physiological adaptation? Humans, in addition to being possessed of a strong survival instinct, possess extraordinary intelligence to employ in support of that instinct. Neanderthals Cooked Their Veggies: Dental Plaque Reveals Eating Habits. According to a recent article at Nature.com, Neanderthals, a branch of early humans that went extinct, may not have been the carnivores scientists once thought.
Analysis of the plaque on their teeth shows they roasted vegetables and may have used medicinal plants. The article explains: Neanderthals have long been viewed as meat-eaters. The vision of them as inflexible carnivores has even been used to suggest that they went extinct around 25,000 years ago as a result of food scarcity, whereas omnivorous humans were able to survive.
But evidence is mounting that plants were important to Neanderthal diets — and now a study reveals that those plants were roasted, and may have been used medicinally.” The teeth on skeletal remains of at least 13 Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) found in a cave in northern Spain were analyzed to look for organic compounds that could reveal clues to their diet. Hardy believes that Neanderthals may have used the bitter plants as. Humans are natural plant-eaters. According to the best evidence: our bodies by Michael Bluejay • June 2002 • Updated December 2015 A fair look at the evidence shows that humans are optimized for eating mostly or exclusively plant foods, according to the best evidence: our bodies.
We're most similar to other plant-eaters, and drastically different from carnivores and true omnivores.1,2,3 Those who insist that humans are omnivores, especially if their argument is based on canine teeth, would do well to look at what the evidence actually shows. We'll cover that below. I first wrote this article many years ago, but since then Milton Mills, M.D. published an excellent paper which covers the anatomy of eating, so let's skip right to my table-ized summary of his research: The details are in Mills' paper. Summary of this article The anatomical evidence tells us that we're optimized for eating mostly or exclusively plant foods.
Looking at the evidence fairly The most common counter-arguments "Humans have canine teeth. "Vitamin B12. The Paleo Diet Is Uncivilized (And Unhealthy and Untrue) Low-carbohydrate (low-carb) diets are fueling the destruction of human health and our planet Earth.
“Low-carbohydrate” means a diet high in animal foods and low in plant foods. Only plants synthesize carbohydrates (sugars). The body parts of animals, including red meat, poultry, seafood, and fish, and eggs, contain no carbohydrates. Animal secretions (like mammalian milk) contain sugars synthesized by plants (the cow eats the grass that made the sugar). The original Atkins Diet is the ultimate in low-carb eating. In an attempt to remedy the obvious harms to human health caused by very low-carb eating, apologists (including the Atkins Nutritionals) have added fruits and non-starchy vegetables to their programs.
The Paleo Diet: The Newest Promoter of Eating the Planet and Its Inhabitants to Death The Paleo Diet book (revised 2011) is “the bible” for followers of this approach (page numbers from this book are found in parenthesis in this article). Dr. Furthermore, according to Dr. Dr. It's NATURAL To Eat MEAT. Science Verifies That Humans Are Frugivores. The_evolution_of_man. Evolutionofman. Human-evolution-into-obesity.