Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ewj01.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!bbnccv!ewj01!lj 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 Article-I.D.: ewj01.172 Posted: Wed Aug 7 10:38:25 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 04:47:12 EDT References: <3401@dartvax.UUCP> <1073@cbdkc1.UUCP> <612@psivax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: East West Journal, Brookline, Mass. Lines: 28 > >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