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Posted on 03/13/2012 1:49:49 PM PDT by Brookhaven
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No one has addressed the “hunter-gatherer” requirement of this diet.
If you buy your stuff at the store you are cheating.
If you hunt and gather your food you will definitely lose weight in a hurry!
You're right. I tend to avoid rice because it's relatively high in carbohydrates. But the Asians thrive on it and didn't get obese till they started eating like we do. It must be the combinations of foods that matter as much as the choices.
Amazing, isn't it, how little we know?
In a loin cloth and bare feet in the winter.....
In a loin cloth and bare feet in the winter.....
Now Im 235# BP is 100/50 - cholesterol is 170 - normal blood sugar -
I eliminated processed flour sugar, dairy,beef, caffiene, any added fats or oils -eating spelt, quinoa, eggs, fruit, veg, venison, chicken, rice, fish water, OJ
I had my physical last week - expect to be off all meds by june
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I tend to follow the Primal diet[Paleo with dairy]. Also, the lifespan of man, or max now, is 120. As in Genesis 6:3.
Do not discount physical activity.
When you earn your living pedaling a pedocab for tourists, you can burn a buttload of calories. Same goes for planting and harvesting crops by hand. Many countries in Asia still use good old-fashioned stoop labour to plant and harvest that rice. No, I am not advocating stoop labour, but I am saying that a good deal of exercise will go a long way to making one lean.
On our family ranch, a natural diet was the only one there was-I’ve eaten like that all my life-there are no overweight people in my family who still eat that way, either. I do make cornbread and wheat or seven grain bread from scratch in winter-but not in the warm months. I grow as many of my own veggies as I can, and get free range meat.
It’s a marketing gimmick, but I think it’s useful because telling people to eat healthy can be too vague and it has some negative connotations.
But tell them to eat like our ancestors did and it allows people to focus on that.
You know you’ve lost it with Hollywood Ca. when you find yourself rooting for all the outright villains in their movies and I do the same thing with BBC Lucy/hominid productions i.e. I’m always rooting for some nice big kitty-cat to come along and get the monkeys/hominids....
But it wasn’t necessarily disease that killed them. If you broke your leg or arm, got a cut or an abscessed tooth you couldn’t go get fixed up like we can today. Their living conditions were much harsher.
Cindie
I agree but there is some merit to this diet. The idea is to only eat the natural things that humans ate and adapted to for tens of thousands of years rather than eat man-made items that have only been around for a few hundred at most. Some of the chemicals and processes used in food today have only been around for years or decades.
I never did a full diet like this but at one time I ate only organic for several years. I even used organic soaps and filtered my water. I felt much better, never had headaches, my skin looked much better and I lost 100lbs without feeling hungry or working out more.
Everyone is different and we have no clue how all these toxins, chemicals, hormones, etc affect each person. Unless you have a disease that requires medication, one should consume as little man-made chemicals as possible.
Scary creature! But he doesn’t have the “fangs” that humans or modern gorillas have. For eating MEAT.
I'm not sure there is a magic cure for anybody....
we are still humans...yes...but we have massively intermingled and who is to say that these times our bodies need constant meat,veggies and fruits...who is to say that we don't need the whole grains and legumes and rice that MOST of the world's populations exist on and thrive on...
most of the world does NOT use nearly as much meat as we in the US/Canada...
most of the world eats tons more fish...and whole grains...
our life expectancy has grown...but so has other nations....Japan...China...India...Europe....
though there is nothing wrong with eating raw veggies and fruits...cooking them usually destroys a lot of the nutrients anyway...
Nah.
Carbohydrates aren’t the enemy that fad diets make them out to be. Your body most readily makes use of carbs for energy use.
About 90 percent of weight gain is pure calories.
The key, for carbohydrates, is to stay away from unprocessed carbs. They tend to lack nutritional substance and they’re high in calories.
A shorthand way of thinking about it is to stay away from white carbohydrates: white bread, white crackers, etc.
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