From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 21:41:34 MDT
Damien Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 09:11:39PM -0400, gts wrote:
>> if a typical animal brain weighs roughly a pound or two, a brain a day
>> is all our paleolithic ancestors needed to prevent scurvy.
> That seems like a lot to me, actually. The right fruits and
> veggies would have been much better sources, I think.
Of course you're right about that; I was just throwing some numbers out to
show that prevention of scurvy was not especially difficult for paleolithic
humans who under some environmental and seasonal conditions might have
little access to plant foods. The same animals that provided brains also
provided other organs that likely also had C and other nutrients.
> Primates probably lost vitamin C production because it was so
> easy to get from the local plants.
Yes. And then like fools on a mission they left the friendly vitamin C rich
jungles and embarked on the great journey to the African deserts and onward
to the European, Asian and Western continents. I'm not sure anyone knows
why.
-gts
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