On Diet
I was reading elsewhere today, a piece by someone referring to his admiration for "evidence based nutrition".
That last phrase sounds like something that might emerge from that great bastion of truth, Mr. James O'Brien who believes in "evidence based facts", and then goes to church, but I digress.
Surely the most relevant evidence in the context of human nutrition is related to the design of the human gut system, rather than the efficacy of a particular recipe?
We have a gut that is longer than a carnivore, but shorter than a herbivore. We have one stomach.
This fact indicates that we need to process our intake somewhat but not as much as grass eaters. So forget wheat and rice, or anything that require more than one injection of enzymes and acids, like the other complex carbohydrates.
However, because we don't have a really short gut, where strong acids are injected into a very small stomach and then the food is got rid of very quickly before it does any damage, we are not good with really bloody highly nutritious meat like offal, which is the first thing that a carnivore goes for after a kill. So that kind of stuff ferments in our medium length guts.
Going further up the food canal we reach the mouth, where we have a combination of grinding and tearing teeth, rather than a full set of permanently growing cutting teeth or similar grinding teeth. Our mouths produce an enzyme which instantly digests simple sugars.
We get our energy from simple sugars, and we get our large brains from easily digested fats.
Without going into volumes on this subject, that is about the size of it. We are designed to eat simple sugars and fats, and lots of them.
The vegan diet, in the context of the grassy plains would satisfy that, and it did for centuries.
As David Byrne said... We are living on nuts (fat) and berries (sugar).
However, we are the most successful animal on the planet, and we have adapted. We have modified our diets so that we can spend more of the day playing with cameras.
We can now eat fatty pork and cheesy comestibles to get the really concentrated fat, we can break open coconuts and process olives and palm nuts for further sources of fat.
We have bred citrus fruits and apples and pears so that they are no longer nasty little dry tree fruits geared only to the reproduction of the tree, but now so that they are really tasty.
We can eat fruits and prepare juices, we can even extract sugar from some plants and eat it as a concentrate, either as sucrose or glucose, rather than natural fructose.
The fact is that the genie is out of the bottle, and there is no such thing as perfect nutrition, there just isn't enough perfect food to go round.
Factory food and rice, wheat, potatoes, deep sea fish, and other foods are convenience foods produced by mill owner, to enrich himself. They are the source of all of our ills, since they store up trouble.
In order to increase their profits they have to continually enlarge their marketplace, increase the population and break down barriers. In short, they need globalism.
And they are going to continue to fool enough idiots into supporting them. Idiots like anti-Trumpers and remainders. (Cheap shot :) )
Personally, I would rather have 70 free years, than 120 years as a prisoner of big pharma, and big farmer.
That last phrase sounds like something that might emerge from that great bastion of truth, Mr. James O'Brien who believes in "evidence based facts", and then goes to church, but I digress.
Surely the most relevant evidence in the context of human nutrition is related to the design of the human gut system, rather than the efficacy of a particular recipe?
We have a gut that is longer than a carnivore, but shorter than a herbivore. We have one stomach.
This fact indicates that we need to process our intake somewhat but not as much as grass eaters. So forget wheat and rice, or anything that require more than one injection of enzymes and acids, like the other complex carbohydrates.
However, because we don't have a really short gut, where strong acids are injected into a very small stomach and then the food is got rid of very quickly before it does any damage, we are not good with really bloody highly nutritious meat like offal, which is the first thing that a carnivore goes for after a kill. So that kind of stuff ferments in our medium length guts.
Going further up the food canal we reach the mouth, where we have a combination of grinding and tearing teeth, rather than a full set of permanently growing cutting teeth or similar grinding teeth. Our mouths produce an enzyme which instantly digests simple sugars.
We get our energy from simple sugars, and we get our large brains from easily digested fats.
Without going into volumes on this subject, that is about the size of it. We are designed to eat simple sugars and fats, and lots of them.
The vegan diet, in the context of the grassy plains would satisfy that, and it did for centuries.
As David Byrne said... We are living on nuts (fat) and berries (sugar).
However, we are the most successful animal on the planet, and we have adapted. We have modified our diets so that we can spend more of the day playing with cameras.
We can now eat fatty pork and cheesy comestibles to get the really concentrated fat, we can break open coconuts and process olives and palm nuts for further sources of fat.
We have bred citrus fruits and apples and pears so that they are no longer nasty little dry tree fruits geared only to the reproduction of the tree, but now so that they are really tasty.
We can eat fruits and prepare juices, we can even extract sugar from some plants and eat it as a concentrate, either as sucrose or glucose, rather than natural fructose.
The fact is that the genie is out of the bottle, and there is no such thing as perfect nutrition, there just isn't enough perfect food to go round.
Factory food and rice, wheat, potatoes, deep sea fish, and other foods are convenience foods produced by mill owner, to enrich himself. They are the source of all of our ills, since they store up trouble.
In order to increase their profits they have to continually enlarge their marketplace, increase the population and break down barriers. In short, they need globalism.
And they are going to continue to fool enough idiots into supporting them. Idiots like anti-Trumpers and remainders. (Cheap shot :) )
Personally, I would rather have 70 free years, than 120 years as a prisoner of big pharma, and big farmer.
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