RE: evolution and diet (was: FITNESS: Diet and Exercise)

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 16:05:52 MDT

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    Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

    > Think of it as a two-cycle step:
    >
    > 1) Early humans adapt toward metabolisms making better use of the
    > available paleolithic diet. I.e., metabolism optimized for presented
    > diet.
    >
    > 2) Modern humans deduce which modernly possible diet provides the
    > best fuel for the evolved metabolism. I.e., diet optimized for
    > presented metabolism.

    Exactly.

    Someone has mentioned insects. If one really wants to be a paleodiet purist
    then yes, insects are on the menu. But few people are that fanatical about
    it.

    On the other hand I do know some paleodiet purists who are willing to risk
    infectious disease by eating raw meat. Evidence that we are not adapted to
    cooked meat: meat produces carcinogenic heterocyclic amines when cooked over
    a fire. Paleodieters who prefer cooked meat (most of them) therefore try to
    broil or boil it, or at least to cook it very slowly and lightly over a very
    low fire so as reduce the production of heterocyclic amines.

    -gts



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