Re: Low-carb diets get thermodynamic defence

From: Randy Shrader (randyshrader_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 03:49:55 GMT

Lyle McDonald wrote:
> Ignoramus29728 wrote:
>>
>>
>> What the paleo folks are also saying, is that as soon as ancient
>> people started eating grains, they started having health problem and
>> deaths from diseases cut life expectancy. I saw a number stated that
>> life expectancy dropped by 30 years.
>>
>> Whether that is actually true, is not clear to me as I like to see
>> more evidence than I have seen.
>
> If they can source it, great.
> I have a feeling it's a lot of bull***.
>

Skeletal remains show the appearance of deficiency diseases that coincide
with the development of agriculture, simply because people then were just as
lazy as they are now. Once they'd domesticated a plant they'd quit all that
nasty gathering bull*** and get most of their calories from a single
source. And when they learned to ferment it . . .

Randy

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