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From: lj@ewj01.UUCP (Leonard Jacobs)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: 'Eating to Live Longer' - ptooey!
Message-ID: <172@ewj01.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 10:38:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 10:38:25 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 04:47:12 EDT
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Organization: East West Journal, Brookline, Mass.
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> >Stop looking to the modern medical industry for health food
> >recomendations.  Look to wholistic groups that have not changed their
> >requirements ever!  Possible exceptions are those causes by modern conditions
> >such as the condition of soil, acid rain, etc.   If you are confused then you
> >are talking to the wrong people, the rules are simple.  Nothing artificial,
> >minimum to no cooking, avoid meats and all processed foods.  Simple huh?
> >
> The ecological shift which seperated the Hominidae
> from the other Great Apes 4 to 6 million years ago was the shift to
> *carnivory*, thus to deny eating meat is to deny a large part of our
> evolutionary heritage. Perhaps analyzing the middens of early
> Australopithicus might be a way of determining the optimal diet? :-)
> -- 
> 				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)
> 
> {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen
> or {ttdica|quad1|bellcore|scgvaxd}!psivax!friesen

Was the evolutionary shift a result of meat eating (baboons and other 
apes/monkeys do eat other animals), or a result of using fire for cooking 
and the selection of cereal grains as a primary food?  Do we know for certain
that homonids are a result of carnivorous habits?

Perhaps this topic should go in net.evol?
--
	Len Jacobs
	East West Journal
	harvard!bbnccv!ewj01!lj