RE: FITNESS: Diet and Exercise

From: Barbara Lamar (blamar@satx.rr.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 20:26:22 MDT

  • Next message: gts: "RE: evolution by mate selection, gene manipulation"

    Damien S wrote:

    > I'm not sure excluding grains is
    > completely paleolithic.

    I'm not either.

    Also, I'm not sure that the human digestive is ideal for high-protein,
    low-carb diets. When it was evolving, humans and their predecessors would
    have eaten mostly fruit, leaves, roots, seeds, insects, bird eggs, and small
    reptiles and mammals. Although most insects are high in protein, I don't
    think there are enough palatable and easy-to-catch ones that they could have
    been the main part of the pre-human and early human diet. From the
    archaeological evidence I've seen, humans didn't become successful enough
    hunters to rely on meat for a large % of their calories until relatively
    recently.

    As for leaving the carbs out of the diet, I agree completely that refined
    carbs such as sugar, honey, and white flour are not healthy. But fruits,
    tubers (such as sweet potatoes and taro), and seeds (such as whole wheat and
    corn -- although, as someone pointed out, one might wish to eat these
    sparingly) would have been the main ingredients of the pre-human and early
    human diet.

    Barbara



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Apr 12 2003 - 20:34:57 MDT