Re: The Evolution Diet Has Evolved!

crisology wrote:
I'm not trying to lose weight/energy. I'm looking for the best long
term/life promoting diet with no reason to compromise or treat past
neglect.

There may not be any such diet. Embryos live on blood passing through their umbilical cords. Babies live on milk.

Human beings may have evolved to thrive on diets which change astonishingly from season to season, and through times of feast and famine. Perhaps we've grown dependent on both.

What we know about evolution seems to suggest not only that we've lived through times when we fed almost exclusively on fruit, but through other times on fish, on herbs and seeds, on meat, and on starchy vegetables.

Dogs and horses apparently do very well on nothing but one food, day in and day out, throughout their lives, but our evolutionary histories have been different. They're obligate carnivores and herbivores; we're omnivores. They're stuck in a routine; we're not.

It may very well be that "different strokes" for different decades -- and different foods for different seasons -- are better strategies than one "perfect" diet for a lifetime.

It may be that putting on and taking off weight isn't unhealthy, but healthy. Caloric restriction might extend your life today, but threaten it tomorrow.

The thing that fascinates me the most about human nutrition is how little we understand it.


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Marshall Price of Miami
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