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

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 16:23:09 MDT

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    I William Wiser wrote:

    [gts wrote:]
    >> It's a question of who has the burden of proof.
    >
    > I think the default of most people, scientist, and nutrition
    > scientists is the status quo.

    Welcome to the discussion.

    I agree. Sad thing, too. Most people have come to believe that the modern
    American diet is perfectly natural and thus the default diet. And yet here
    we are in the midst of a national health crisis. Obesity and diabetes have
    reached epidemic proportions. Something is very wrong, and you can be very
    sure that the dairy and grain industries are not going to help us identify
    the problem. In fact they will fight very hard through their lobbyists to
    suppress any movement at the national level to correct the American diet.
    Also our economy is so heavily dependent on dairy and agriculture that
    pulling the rug out from under them would likely sink us into a depression.

    > I am curious what knowledgeable paleodiet proponents think of
    > caloric restriction.

    I don't know that paleodiet theorists have any consensus opinion on the
    subject, but this paleodiet theorist believes caloric restriction works as
    an adaptive mechanism to increase the probability of producing offspring.
    Faced with apparent famine, the body shifts gears in order to live longer to
    produce offspring at some time in the future when food may again be
    plentiful and offspring can be reared. Evidence is strong that longevity
    from CR is inversely proportional to procreation.

    -gts



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