RE: Experiences with Atkins diet

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 19:44:10 MDT

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    Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:

    >> 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."
    >
    > Yes, that's exactly what Eli is saying you mean, and is the
    > classic logic error.

    No it is not. I am simply using the word "adapted" according to its concise
    definition as it relates to evolution. It is impossible for an organism to
    be genetically adapted to an environment in which it did not evolve.
    Adaptation is a process that happens only in the context of an environment.

    Eliezer doesn't read my messages carefully, else he would have known all
    along that I do not reject improvements on the paleodiet from nutritional
    and medical science, i.e., he does not realize or acknowledge that I *agree*
    with him that humans may be better suited (but not better adapted) to other
    environments. It seems you and at least one other person here are also under
    the same false impression about my views, despite my numerous attempts to
    clarify.

    My advocacy of natural paleolithic diets should not be construed to mean
    that I am advocating a Luddite point of view, or that I am anti-science. All
    arguments along such lines are BS.

    -gts



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