"I can smell it now!"
Posted on 06/26/2014 7:54:45 PM PDT by blam
Will Dunham, Reuters
Jun. 26, 2014
Don't laugh, but the discovery of the oldest known human poop is offering valuable scientific insight into the life of Neanderthals who lived in Spain some 50,000 years ago.
Scientists said on Wednesday they found five samples of human fecal matter at an archeological site called El Salt, in the floor of a rock shelter where Neanderthals once lived.
Analysis of the samples provided a new understanding of the diet of this extinct human species, offering the first evidence that Neanderthals were omnivores who also ate vegetables as part of their meat-heavy diet, they said.
The straight poop: Fossil feces is not merely prehistoric toilet humor.
"So far, it is the only fossil evidence that gives us information of the ingestion and the regular meals of our ancestors," said Ainara Sistiaga, a geoarchaeologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of La Laguna who was one of the researchers.
"Understanding the diet of past human species closely related to our own will help us gain perspective on our evolutionary constraints and adaptability," Sistiaga added.
The researchers examined the fecal fossils for biologically derived indicators of the types of food the Neanderthals ate.
Their findings indicate that Neanderthals predominantly consumed meat, as suggested by high amounts of one such "biomarker" called coprostanol formed by the bacterial reduction of cholesterol in the gut. But they also found evidence for significant plant intake as shown by the presence of a compound called 5 beta-stigmastanol, found in plant sources.
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Yes, you are totally off.
Before Europeans went everywhere, most places didn’t eat bread. No bread in South America. Corn cakes in Central and North America up to the cold line, Africa had few places with bread south of the Sahara. Ethiopia has a flatbread made of the local grain and there were similar ones west of there made of millet. The rice cultures generally didn’t have bread, except steamed ground rice flour. The northern peoples had flatbread made of ground barley and buckwheat. Grinding grain is hard, and hard on the teeth, too.
Rice culture is easy, the grain is edible if just boiled, and it provides lots of calories. Therefore, no need to develop a complicated system of milling just to eat. It is much older than bread.
The older I get, the more I think the best way to eat is as close to the way God packaged it as you can reasonably get, and if you're not lactose intolerant, for heaven's sake, do dairy! It's up there with eggs as a source of intense good nutrition, from calcium to B12 protein. As for the egg white fad ... I bet you a million bucks that in the next ten or 15 years there'll be admonishment to be sure and include the yolk, to eat them together, for the best nutrition, that just eating the whites is throwing you off whack because it's missing a key nutrient factor. Just like too much soy throws you off whack.
The folks I know who are healthy pretty much eat food the way God presents it. They may fancy it up with great cooking, but milk is real milk, butter is real butter, meat is real meat, and fruits and veggies are straightforward. Elegant or fancy or plain, but non-processed.
That's just me.
anything short of granite was food.
The crappy origins of the archaeology of North America’s first people.
Yesterday, the journal Science reported the discovery in an Oregon cave of human DNA that is more than 14,000 years old. The DNA was extracted from coprolites, or fossilized feces. They represent the oldest human remains found in the Western Hemisphere.
I agree and think doing so is good advice.
And, eat a lot more vegetables than meat because vegetables were/are easier to obtain.
Years ago, I read about a guy in Florida who drank so much carrot juice that he got cirossis (sp) of the liver and died.
At least he died healthy.
What you describe IS the way I eat (except for some snacks which are processed).
When I was drinking almond milk, I was trying to eliminate certain foods from my diet to see what was causing skin issues.
Happily, I am not lactose intolerant and can drink real milk. I hope you have been able to pinpoint whatever is causing skin issues. One little miracle ingredient that has worked honest-to-goodness miracles on my skin is fresh-harvested (not bottled) aloe vera that I grow in my yard or harvest from other places. AMAZING STUFF!!!!!
lol...I didn’t say how much “some” was. Hostess bakery doesn’t make it home. That’s how I handle that.
I gave up on trying to find out if I had a food trigger. I spent months trying to figure it out, eliminating this thing or that thing that were common triggers, but to no avail. I generally try to follow the possible trigger list just in case.
I bought an aloe plant last year, put it outside, then forgot about it. After reading up on it, I wasn’t sure about using on a daily basis, especially on the face. I hear it is very good for burns. How do you use it?
"I can smell it now!"
Can’t you just picture in your mind, that sitting on a fencepost waiting for a slow armadillo to cross the road?
Sounds like a coonass.
They will eat anything that doesn’t eat them first, and it will taste good.
Probably what caused the population boom, the rumors about the effects of oysters must be true?
YIKES!!! Me too!!! About the only thing that makes it home most of the time are chocolate smears on my face and crumbs on the seat of truck!
As for aloe vera -- the most important thing to remember is to think of it FIRST, as in RIGHT NOW, with sun burns and most heat burns. If all you remember is that, it's good. Bottled aloe is good for those things, too, but they don't compare to "fresh" aloe (though fresh-picked will stay good in the fridge crisper for a two months, easy). I'll FReepmail you. I've been using it daily (or mostly daily) for probably 14 years. Its regular, consistent use has:
1. Made a dark gray bruise-looking birthmark on my arm almost completely disappear (when I've had to go without aloe or skimp on my arms, it has reappeared).
2. Deeply clarified the sun-beaten freckled skin on my face; I know this because when I have to go for a few days without, my complexion starts looking a little mottled and cloudy.
3. This is going to sound nuts, but it has made many weird little sun-triggered things that dermatologists are always bugged about, disappear. Yes. Gone. Not all of them -- there's one I'm dealing with now that will require my dermatologist's assessment. But ... I'm a fair-skinned person in the sun quite a lot. Aloe is a miracle in my world.
Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.
Cut off an aloe leaf or part of a leaf, cut it down the middle length-wise, and scrape out the gel with a knife. Apply gel to skin.
Thanks!
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