Posted on 02/02/2024 2:01:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv
I am following the gatherer’s diet and walk 5 miles every day when I can. I am in my late 80’s now. Never had any health issues with heart, stroke, diabetes, joint aches, or constipation (in my opinion prime cause of colo-rectal cancer). I will continue to follow my genes evolved over multiple million years. My mother ate meat only once a week and fasted one whole day every month. She lived to age 103 without any serious health issues. But feel free to follow whichever diet is a joy in your life.
“They balance out the Inuit of 10,000 years ago, who lived almost entirely off of hunting and fishing.”
The Inuit people are so much marine mammals they evolved the ability to process iron levels that would be fatal to normal people. Seal meat has near lethal levels of iron for ordinary humans. All of the descendants of the Inuit carry this gene and it presents itself in c.f. Blood tests as hemocromitosis but it’s perfectly healthy for First Nations people to have Iron levels that high this First Nations person has an iron level double ordinary humans and am perfectly fine health wise. I can eat seal , whale and walrus and have on a number of occasions w/o harm.
That said there was no domesticated animals in Mesoamerica before Columbus only the wild turkey was semi domesticated , iguanas have been kept in pens but not breed in the regular even to this day. It’s little wonder cannibalism was common in Mesoamerica the people were the livestock that could be domesticated or as t least feed on corn squash and beans the three sisters of the Mesoamerica diet.
It’s well documented that the Plains indigenous peoples lived largely on bison bison and woods bison two different species. First Nations in the Pac Northwest were fish centric the salmon is sacred for this very reason. Each culture adapted to the food resources of their ecological niches.
Meso Americans also had domesticated dogs they raised for meat. In South America they had llamas.
“What about bugs?”
All manor of bugs have feed humans for thousands of years and over three billion people eat them to this day on the regular. All of Asia , Africa and most of Latin America eat bugs as a regular part of their diet. Asia has the widest range of bug eaten by far go to any market in Thailand, Vietnam, Korea ,China or Laos and you will see every form of bug cooked in a wide range of ways from stirfryed to grilled and steamed or boiled. Boiled silk worms are quite tasty same for stirfryed. In Latin America grasshoppers are a huge staple and very tasty as well. Ants are common as well. Africa corners the market on locusts they call them desert shrimp and they taste like fried shrimp when fried and salted.
Dogs are and were more valuable than captured peasants the Aztec rarely ate dogs they regularly ate humans. The missionaries were horrified by it and wrote in detail about it. If you can understand the original old Spanish the accounts are horrific. Long pork is the closest English language translation to what the missionary called human meat. Dog is good eating but they are man’s best friend so we give them special treatment. Korea just banned dog meat production. I have had it more than a few times in Korea and Vietnam as well. None of it was gamey it’s closer to veal than chicken or pork in consistency and it takes the flavor of what it’s cooked in. Human is on my list but modern humans are too loaded with pharmaceuticals, lead, mercury and other heavy metals to eat disregard cultural norms entirely strictly from a medical view point it’s not a good idea. Apex predator eats all before him that’s what makes him the apex species.
Well....yeah. But there are diets/genetics that have been fine-tuned over time. The Japanese...probably any island people...have a fiet heavy in fish. The Mediterranean diet is kind of distinct. The North American diet war varied, but included corn, which the Euros imported. Are uou following a paleo diet? Hard to argue with whole foods...nuts, seeds, grains. Some people ought not eat nightshades...potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers....
“Bugs” is earth’s largest life Kingdom accounting for 75% of all lifeforms on earth by species number excluding bacteria and protists of course. Mature flies are always going to be a no no they feed on things loaded with bacteria and parasites. Fly larvae in controlled environments are a different animal entirely. Black soldier fly larvae are 70% protein and make for excellent animal feeds for any monogastric. Particularly fish which need fishmeal to be farmed. Fishmeal is moving one protein shortage to another source. Using alternative proteins grown on waste streams such as broken rice,corn midlings, ect turns what would be landfill wastes into high quality protein. No one says you have to eat the larvae directly fish will happily turn them into fish fillets at a near one to one ratio of feed to yield. Fish being the top spot in the vertebrates for feed conversion efficiency. Shrimp, crawfish, lobsters all need high protein feeds and they also get close to 1:1. People don’t think twice about e eating lobster which are less than 02% in DNA from a cockroach it’s all mental at that point. The reason to avoid roaches is they carry parasites due to where they live on and off.
That said grinding up larvae into a dry protein powder and putting that into pasta or bread would not alter the taste once processed into dry form protein powder are neutral in flavor. Same for power bars or liquid protein shakes they take the flavor of what you mix them with. Half of humanity is in constant critically protein deficiency. Want them to stop rushing into the first world then make sure they get their cut of the pie or world wars will be fought ones that the West won’t win without nukes. China can field a 100 million man Army same for India in conventional battles in a war of body attrition the West loses not that the West has the stomachs for tens of millions of deaths on the battle field.
I eat mostly what grows on trees. I love veggies such as egg plant, zucchini, Okra, squash. Today I ate okra dish at an India buffet restaurant in Jacksonville today and it was just amazing. I am always stocked up on walnuts, almonds, mixed nuts, dried apricots, prunes, Medjool dates, dried mango, and raisins. My meals are vegetable stew with carrots, zucchini, sprouts and red potatoes unpeeled, with a bit of chicken and bit of Italian sausage for flavor. I make a big pot enough for a week and freeze it in small glass containers. I will eat it with either basmati rice or home made naan. For dessert i prefer whole milk vanilla yogurt from Aldi. Only other protein food in my diet is an egg every other day. I stay away from red meat as much as possible but occasionally I will go to Longhorn Steak House and indulge on ribs. May be 4 times a year. I avoid all colas. Hot water with lemonade is a great to start out the day. In the afternoons, I like a cup of coffee with dried fruit & nuts. When visiting restaurants I will order either grilled salmon or shrimp. I am doing really well with this diet, and hope I will have enough energy to keep going into my late-90’s. I want to emphasize how important daily walking is to stay healthy. I am blessed with beaches many miles long in my town, and that is my favorite place to walk while listening to music with earbuds. My sight and hearing are still good, which I am thankful for.
Yeah, it’s agenda-driven fake science, IMHO. It’s not unlikely that soups and stews (meat/fish/veggies) were the primary nutrition source for early groups.
A Rumination on the Invention of Soup
https://soupsong.com/zmar02.html
https://search.brave.com/search?q=neanderthals+invented+soup
“hahahahaha ..”
You are not even microminimally at the sarc stage here noob
When you reach my age, I will treat you to dinner at Long Horn steak house.
Yep - the peaceful, agrarian peoples of the world never hunted and lived in perfect communist harmony. Until white British men invented rifles and went sailing off to Africa, saying “Look there, Thompson! It’s a tusker!” :)
He is either the one who scams disability or the one who thinks medical knowledge is genetic.
Both of them were dumb and both loved to talk about how "healthy" their flabby 400 pound butt is.
People do not realize that the ability to just keep moving is a human's biggest advantage in hunting.
You are not faster or stronger but you are relentless.
Even today there are horse walkers in the southwest of the US. In the end they just lead the one they want away.
Probably the way we got most of the animals we ended up domesticating.
Clearly your reading comprehension is a little weak. I didn’t say Inuits lived 500,000 years ago. For that matter Indians, as such, didn’t exist 500,000 years ago either. Ancient ancestors in Africa were hypercarnivores though at a time that correlates to rapid advancement in tool usage and brain size.
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