Paleo in a Nutshell Part 1: Food
Posted on November 29, 2009
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paynowlivelater.blogspot.com – this video describes the rationale and philosophy behind eating as our ancestors did and provides me and hopefully you with a way to tell others why it makes sense. … paleo primal ancestral hunter gatherer diet nutrition health longevity pharmaceuticals agriculture farming pesticides antibiotics organic free range grass fed
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@HealthQuestion Your eloquence is matched only by your acute perception. More nutritional value does indeed equal better health.
Listen fuck fuckers…every single human has the ability to digest almost anything. Which is why we are the dominant super species of this planet. The question is… How much nutrition is in the food we eat? Are there any additives in it?(poison). More nutritional value = better health.
Natural selection favours genes for a digestive system which deals well with the food a creature eats.’
This is Lamarckian evolution/outmoded, Not modern theory of evolution. There must be reproductive advantage for positive selection and mutation. Supplementing w/any new food class (even grains) allowed ancestors to survive/leave ecological niche but didn’t cause digestive overhaul.
‘digestive system will evolve to be good’
Not necessarily. Humans remain ‘good’ at digesting fruit (best).
@Chrisisms Natural selection favours genes for a digestive system which deals well with the food a creature eats. If that creature eats primarily meat (and not grains), the digestive system will evolve to be good at that. Regardless of how long ‘we’ have been evolving, you can’t change that we’ve only been eating grains for 10,000 years – not long enough for natural selection to significantly impact the genes. Chance could have dictated that it deals with grains, but as it turns out, it didn’t.
‘You are assuming you have correctly divined what I meant by we…’
This reminds me of when Clinton said, ‘it depends on what is, is.’
‘We’ve been evolving for 2,000,000 years’-0.38 FALSE for ALL human variants. There is no support for any philosophy that great apes (images with ‘we’ at 0.38 depict left to right hominoid to hominoidea) somehow adapted to meat or grains (digested similarly)- products of ‘farming for only 10,000 years’ 0.40
How is meat digested any better than grains?
You are assuming you have correctly divined what I meant by ‘we’…
‘they get vitamin c from seals’
From livers they get small portions of vitamin c. Overall their diets are lacking in vitamin c which is one reason they are prone to so many contagious diseases. The genetic differences are so slight across human populations there are not great enough distances to justify radically different diets just because relatively recent explorers migrated away from Europe.
Citrus are not the optimal food for any human. Succulent raw fruits are the optimal food.
0:38 ‘We’ve been evolving for 2,000,000 years’
False. Direct hominoidea lineage has been evolving just within the primate order for over 60,000,000 years and mostly on plants. Only relatively recently (within the last million years) have ancestors begun burning meat to survive the ice age. Of course humans still haven’t adapted to burnt food- no animal has and burning food (especially meat) produces deadly carcinogens. Before that meat was rarely if ever consumed.
Thank you and wow that was an amazling quick reply and congrats on your work keep it up
I would aim to be closer to 80-100g per day. If you workout, perhaps more. Any meat or fish contains loads of protein. Eggs are a great source too. You can also get smaller amounts from nuts and some veggies, like avocado. Mix it around and above all, don’t obsess too much about how much you are getting.
Hello I was wondering if anyone can suggest protein souces I try and get alot of fish especially Tuna but i worked out i am only getting 60 grams of protein a day
I am 150 pounds 18 years old is that enough?
Natural is not the same as healthy and their existence pre-farming makes no difference. We have not been eating them for long enough. Out bodies have not evolved to tolerate them.
I suggest the reads “The Vegetarian Myth”
this sounds reasonable. there would be small genetic adaptations.
And how come these guys like Don Tolman, who’s vegetarian but drinks milk, and T. Colin Campbell, who is vegan, say their meatless diets are best and that meats are acidic and related to various ailments?
Last thing. I’ve heard, specifically from a Don Tolman here on YouTube, that we’re supposed to eat according to what our ancestors ate in their regions of the world. So Eskimos aren’t supposed to eat citrus fruits — supposedly they get vitamin c from seals — and Mediterraneans aren’t supposed to eat chocolate. Thoughts?
And aren’t grains natural? Wheat, corn, rice, etc. These are native to somewhere and pre-dated farming.
Why not? Isn’t that what Chinese paleo man ate?
You saying paleo man didn’t eat potatoes?
Thanks – it was a difficult one to judge – imagine how frustrating it got making the video when I had to keep watching bits! If I ever do a ‘re-make’ I’ll perhaps shave a bit off each slide.
This is a great video, I’m a big proponent of the Paleo Diet. Ran my fastest marathon ever after 2 months on it.
Just a note, the pace of this vid is waaaay to slow. Each slide could be up for less than half the time and it wouldn’t be so painstaking!
This is a wonderful video. Every single person should watch this, and it should be played during the Super Bowl halftime. -But that of course will never happen, because they’re funded by….. those guys in this video! lol.
Life changing
@HandiAce Native Americans began farming around 500BC I believe. Evidence of declining health that arose during this period can be seen in their bones.
The way I tend to look at it is this: our genes are a result of the accumulation of hundreds of thousands of years of all kinds of eating, across a wide spectrum. The best thing we can eat is the one that was most common because that’s what natural selection would have favoured adaptation to. So it still makes sense for there to be cases of ancestors who ate sub-optimally – and the people you refer to could be such a case.
Just a question. Native Americans had horticultural practices such as the Three Sisters where they planted corn, beans and squash together. How old could that practice have been (before agriculture dawned?) and could corn and beans have had an effect on their health/life expectancy? I think some Native Americans could live past their fifties.
You can eat corn raw and I’m sure someone in a survival situation would eat one too if they found one out in the wild.