Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: 'Eating to Live Longer' - ptooey! Message-ID: <96@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 17:32:25 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.96 Posted: Mon Aug 5 17:32:25 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 02:35:38 EDT References: <3401@dartvax.UUCP> <1073@cbdkc1.UUCP> <612@psivax.UUCP> Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Distribution: net Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 16 Summary: Stanley Friesen writes: > ... your (dietary) rules seem to be based on questionable >reasoning to boot! 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? :-) >At least that would be based on real evidence. > > Sarima (Stanley Friesen) It was my impression that chimps and gorillas DO eat meat when they get the chance (insects, small mammals). Frank Silbermann