Posted on 05/01/2010 7:31:25 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Do you think that eating a diet of fruits and vegetables will enable you to fit into your skinny jeans? What about shellfish, will that help you lose weight? Let’s go to the zoos and aquariums to see the results of animals that eat these diets exclusively.
Hippopotamus diets consist primarily of flood plain grasses with an occasional garnish of fallen fruit depending on the area. In the wild, hippopotamuses spend their day wallowing in the water at their favorite riverside beach waiting to overturn small boats. Hippopotamuses are an extremely fat animal, with a round body, short, stocky legs, and a large head. Once darkness falls they venture ashore to look for tall green grass to munch on.
An adult hippopotamus’ weight is 6,000 - 8,000 pounds. These rolly-polly animals spend each night grazing and fill their massive stomachs with as much as 150 pounds of grass to maintain their body weight.
I feel the same way, after tons of fruits and vegi’s I start cravin’ meat.
They are ruminents. When I develop three stomaches I’ll reconsider becoming a vegetarian. We’ll be on the same playing field then.
Proving once again, Dr. Atkins was right.
I like meat just fine, but there are plenty of lean herbivores (gazelles, deer, etc.) some paunchy omnivores (bears) and of course there are plenty of fat cats and dogs who eat only meat, and lots of it.
The Hippopotamus: Nature’s Fat Bastard
My Trifecta of Meat: Porterhouse: Medium-Rare, Bacon Wrapped Hot Dog and Chicken Fried Steak, one word: yummy.
Three words for ‘veggie weight loss fans’:
Grass
Fed
Beef
Thin Amphibious/carnivorous ‘Mander
“When I develop three stomachs”
Please tell us you’ll post pix!
:))
“but there are plenty of lean herbivores (gazelles, deer, etc.)”
They’re “lean” because they’re ~always~ busy running like hell away from the fast carnivores....;-D
Not to nitpick, but hippos are not actually ruminants. Their digestive system is similar, but not quite as efficient as ruminants. They might be considered pseudo-ruminants.
An interesting fact is that hippos are relatively closely related to cetaceans (whales, porpoises, etc.).
Nevertheless, I agree with your basic point, which is that humans are designed to be omnivores.
STOP SCREWING WITH MY HIPPOPHOBIA, DAMMIT!
ROFL
>>>> I like meat just fine, but there are plenty of lean herbivores (gazelles, deer, etc.) <<<<<
Well then, the secret to staying slim is out now, you just let the cat out of the bag.
All anyone has to do to remain slim is to rent a pride of lions (large cats) to stalk them all day, every day.
After all, nothing helps keep you slim as having to run for your lives every day that you want to remain alive.
And if you get too slow and fat... why you get eaten.
So the rest of the herd will stay fit and trim.
What a great diet idea you have. I wonder why nobody else has marketed it before.
Beautiful dog....*perfect* ear set!
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