Re: Venomous Vegetables


deowll <deowll@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Wheat - Phytates in bran inhibit iron absorption, leading to anaemia.
> > Also size - see Maize further down.
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> They also rot your teeth but they don't seem to cause many early deaths.
> >
In _Good to Eat_, Harris (I seem to remember) speaks of rabbit poisoning. If
hunters eat only lean meat, with no fat or starch, can poison them. And it
is _Indians of Texas_, (again, I think) that it is remarked how eagerly
hunting Indians sought maize - real treat.
Schwarz remarks somewhere that at least one mountain man considered coffee
and toast a delicious breakfast.

> > Milk - about 60% (probably more) of the world's humans cannot digest
> > milk or milk products after they've been weaned - ever hear of a
> > Chinese cheese?
>
In northern climates, no vitamin D from sun, and D helps absorb calcium. So
extra calcium might have guaranteed a full complement for nursing women.


>
> Well it's like this. First I get real hungry and then I start to eat
things
> I don't like as much but can get. I don't like being hungry so I try to
> increase the supply of food. Growing plants works.
>
> >
> > Most of the above are almost totally indigestible unless cooked - just
> > what did Homo erectus eat with his 'hunted' meat chunks and marrow
> > bones ?
>
> Meat. But then the hunt had better not fail. No doubt like modern animals
> they also ate some pretty strong tasting and more or less toxic plants but
> many animals deal with this at least in part by eating a little of one
kind
> then a little of another and letting their liver handle the poison.
>
> One lady rolled up a thistle leaf like a G with the thorns inside and
chewed
> it up and swallowed. She said it was so bitter her mouth went number.
> >
> > Richard
> >
Crops can fail, too.\
_Ghosts of Evolution_ makes this point about eating varous things to
minimize any particular poison.
Regards
John Wilson


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