RE: Experiences with Atkins diet

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 16:44:46 MDT

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    Behalf Of Eliezer S. wrote:

    > gts wrote:
    > >
    >> I have faith in the *science* of evolution, yes. I believe
    >> it is well established that living organisms are best adapted to the
    >> environments in which they evolved. This principle is applicable to
    diets. I
    >> mentioned that in my view humans are as well adapted to paleodiets as
    >> giraffes are well adapted to eating the leaves of tall trees. In
    >> giraffes this dietary adaptation is extremely obvious. Unfortunately
    >> in humans our dietary adaptive traits are mostly invisible,
    >> buried in our metabolisms.
    >
    > Gts, I say again that you are making the classic Panglossian
    > error

    I disagree.

    > Living organisms are
    > adapted to the environments in which they evolved. That is,
    > when living organisms adapt, they adapt to their environments, rather
    > than something else.

    Exactly.

    > It does not follow that an organism is "best adapted"
    > or even "well adapted" to that environment.

    By "best adapted" I mean "genetically adapted best to the organism's own
    environment vs some other environment in which the organism did not evolve."
     
    > The diet that is best suited to an organism that adapted to a
    > paleolithic diet is not necessarily a paleolithic diet.

    Eliezer, how many times must I repeat myself?? If you are not going to read
    my messages carefully please don't respond to them. I have stated numerous
    times, including in my last message here to addressed specifically *YOU*,
    that I do not reject the notion that the paleodiet can be improved by modern
    medical and nutritional science.

    It so happens that I consume many non-paleo substances on a daily basis,
    including extremely non-paleolithic chemicals like aminoguanidine and
    selegiline.

    -gts



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