Humans are designed to drink milk and eat grains?
The cover story of the May issue of Scientific American is titled "What Makes Us Human?" On page 48 it describes how humans have copies of the gene that allows digestion of starch; way more copies than other primates.
The author also states with absolute confidence that around 9,000 years ago the human genome changed so as to allow adults to digest lactose. This made it reasonable to drink milk from animals.
She explains that these adaptations endured because they happened after certain events in history. One is the conquest of fire more than a million years ago. Does this mean humans adapted genetically to thrive on cooked food? The shift relating to starch occurred after the agricultural revolution about 10,000 years ago.
The article goes on to explain why so many Asians and Latin Americans are lactose intolerant. Supposedly the milk-digesting gene didn't develop because their ancient ancestors weren't herders, so using milk wasn't necessary.
Up until now, I've been convinced that what Dr. Graham describes in 80/10/10 was the natural diet for all people to thrive on. And what about the China Study? Where I live, getting the discipline to follow anything other than SAD is enough of a head trip. I'm confused as hell. When I come across facts like those in Scientific American it makes me start to doubt everything.
The author also states with absolute confidence that around 9,000 years ago the human genome changed so as to allow adults to digest lactose. This made it reasonable to drink milk from animals.
She explains that these adaptations endured because they happened after certain events in history. One is the conquest of fire more than a million years ago. Does this mean humans adapted genetically to thrive on cooked food? The shift relating to starch occurred after the agricultural revolution about 10,000 years ago.
The article goes on to explain why so many Asians and Latin Americans are lactose intolerant. Supposedly the milk-digesting gene didn't develop because their ancient ancestors weren't herders, so using milk wasn't necessary.
Up until now, I've been convinced that what Dr. Graham describes in 80/10/10 was the natural diet for all people to thrive on. And what about the China Study? Where I live, getting the discipline to follow anything other than SAD is enough of a head trip. I'm confused as hell. When I come across facts like those in Scientific American it makes me start to doubt everything.
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Permalink Reply by Jasmine.green on -
the title inspires generalizations and makes me laugh. So Asians and Latin Americans aren't human? ;-)
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Permalink Reply by Jasmine.green on
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what, you also discovered from this article that you're ET?
I've been coloring "Other" on my forms for years on principle.
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Permalink Reply by Hayley.Dawn on -
Hi EV, who is the author of 'Human Diet' ?
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Permalink Reply by Mellifera on -
The second one is much less useful. I don't remember why, but i had think both out from the library and didn't read it all like I did with the first one.
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Permalink Reply by Albert on -
why do you want to live long EV? do you see it as a competition to see who can live longer?
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Permalink Reply by ArugulaBugula on -
"The article goes on to explain why so many Asians and Latin Americans are lactose intolerant. Supposedly the milk-digesting gene didn't develop because their ancient ancestors weren't herders, so using milk wasn't necessary."
Well there you go. I am not a herder so I guess me using milk is also not necessary.
I think just because we do or do not have a gene for something does not mean we MUST utilize it now. We also have an appendix which can be removed (largely) without problems and men have nipples. So not everything needs to be utilized.
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Permalink Reply by Jef on -
I agree.. Men's nipples are very useful. How could we do without them?
also, I read that the appendix actually does something... I forget what though... I'm committed to keeping mine and my kids' too. They need to be refridgerated though, if they are harvested too early.
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Permalink Reply by ArugulaBugula on
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haha.
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