Those teeth? Not for tearing meat. Even in humans, we lack true meat-eating teeth, which are the carnassial teeth.
Posted on 03/13/2012 1:49:49 PM PDT by Brookhaven
This a magic cure, for 90 percent of what ails us and it’s the same treatment for everybody else.
Diet and exercise.
This probably won’t change.
I’ve been doing most of this for the last few months, with the exception of rice (which I now mix one cup barley to two cups rice). That’s sufficient for two people for two meals because me and spousey-mine are cutting back there as well.
I’ve developed an aversion to pasta and an active loathing of white bread, although I still enjoy whole grain bread in moderation.
Japanese food is very heavy on fresh veggies, fish and fruit, so that’s easy enough — although I also avoid the salty sauces — soy and otherwise.
I never thought of this as being a caveman type diet. Just common sense good healthy food.
A lot of indigenous people simply can’t handle the food we eat. My sis works for the Continental and they occasionally have refugees on the planes back from Africa and the first thing they want to try is coca cola...which they can’t digest and it makes them sick...
A lot of indigenous people simply can’t handle the food we eat. My sis works for the Continental and they occasionally have refugees on the planes back from Africa and the first thing they want to try is coca cola...which they can’t digest and it makes them sick...
I eat what I like, when I like. At 50mumble, I'm still lean and fit.
Tonight it's BBQ chicken thighs with rosemary smoke, mashed taters, and asparagus out of the yard.
Along with plenty of home-made beer.
There is no magic bullet for diets.
Pay attention to your body, and stay active. And eat what you enjoy.
/johnny
Yes, in which case you have to look at the diet above as a “low carb” diet. Low carb works from my experience very well.
Gorillas have fangs, but they don’t eat meat.
As I've grown older and exercise less, I find that lowering carbohydrate intake makes it easier to keep my weight steady. I tend to eat meat, dairy, and vegetables. I don't shun bread or rice (though I do try to shun sugar), I just think twice before eating them.
When I was 16 and spending the summer bringing in bales of hay, carbs were, indeed, my friends.
You're absolutely right. I let myself fall into the conventional wisdom that diet is all. I should know better from my own experience.
Yes, because you’ve lost muscle mass and don’t exercise as much, so you don’t need as many calories. It happens to us all. :)
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Hmmm.
World life expectancy charts might disagree with this surmise. China = 74.6. USA = 78.8.
You can check out India, Polynesia, and Southeast Asia on your own.
The Japanese are amongst the longest-lived people.
One factor for the Chinese is that they often suffer deprivation, which would shorten their life.
The funny thing is that he didn't simply order his artist to create the scariest possible monster. He told the artist to start with existing skeletal bones and skulls and reconstruct one of them using the assumption that what he was dealing with was a bipedal ape with huge eyes for nocturnal hunting which corresponded to the huge Neanderthal eye sockets, the 8" fur coat which all ice-age creatures had to have, and maybe a slightly mean look on his face. The fact that what actually emerged looks as scary as it does is probably, as Vendramini suggests, an instinctive reaction on our part from racial memories having to do with having to deal with the creatures.
BTW, I thought gorillas were omnivores. If they don't eat meat, what do they eat? Can they get that big just eating plants and fruit?
Those teeth? Not for tearing meat. Even in humans, we lack true meat-eating teeth, which are the carnassial teeth.
In the Paleolithic at 37 Tara would be a toothless crone minding her grandchildren as the rest of the tribe went out to hunt and gather. They didn't have veggie gardens that contained produce from all corners of the earth either.
Gorillas are peaceful herbivores, about as far from Neanderthals as you could get in terms of behavior and culture.
Does it count if I hunt down other people and gather their stuff?
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