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 telefunken on
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Permalink Reply by Travis on -
alot of people didn't have access to milk like many africans and asians and have no history of consuming milk. i believe the body can change and adapt without evolution. whether you can digest it or not, it doesn't make it optimal necessarily.
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Permalink Reply by Rawstrength on -
I tried yak milk in tibet. It's strange, but I thought it was good. It's much richer than cow or goat milk.
I liked Tibet but I don't think I could survive there long-term because I need to eat a lot more plants than that environment provides.
Beautiful place though. You have to see the monks making sand mandalas - incredible.
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Permalink Reply by Uti on -
I haven't seen or read the article, but Scientific American is not a peer-reviewed journal of scientific research, so there is some latitude to write articles of interest to the general public. I'm usually a skeptic, especially when something makes our species out to be "special" and separate from Nature's rules for the other species of life on this planet.
I like a lot of what Graham says, but I also like EV's point that she looks at longevity as a factor in the search for an ideal diet and lifestyle. To me, higher numbers of long lived people within a certain group indicates that they are doing something to help the human body reach its full potential. Who are the longest lived groups of people?
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Permalink Reply by Uti on
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Yeah, I think I read that long ago. Higher altitudes, ate cultured milk products, drank water from highly mineralized glacial runoff sources and I would take a guess that they weren't preoccupied with stressing out over acquiring money and power.
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Permalink Reply by Silverfire on -
Check out this great venn diagram of what the blue zones have in common.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vendiagram.gif
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Permalink Reply by Jay Dubz on -
This article is rather Eurocentric and racist for the most part, and probably written by a compromised milk market propagandist who research was "incidentally" funded by the milk industry.
So-called Asians and Latin Americans (?) make up probably almost more than half of the world's population, and when it comes to lactose intolerance, we can include a large number of people residing in continental Africa.
So since a very small minority of the world’s population is supposedly "genetically disposed" for bovine or other species milk digestibility within their isolated genome it’s not viewed an anomaly, but a genetic enhancement, basically making them “more human”…how racist.
Also, the term Asian is so broad it is meaningless scientifically. And biologically and genetically speaking, what in the hell is a “Latin American” which is a very recent cultural determiner and has no relative meaning as far as a genetic or “racial” designator; even when using the term culturally, it is very difficult to get a clear consensus since Latin Americans are so culturally diverse.
In certain parts of rural China breast cancer is very rare; it is called something on the order of, “the rich woman’s disease” by some rural Chinese, for they associate it with the consumption of milk and milk by-products in the diets of the more “well-to-do” Chinese, milk derived products which are not culturally consumed by these more moderate living rural Chinese women.
Humans are the only living species on the earth that consumes milk after they are weaned, and if that ain’t all, the milk of another species! Cow’s milk is biologically, hormonally, and nutritionally structured for the rapid growth of calves.
Peace
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Permalink Reply by Hayley Sunshine on -
I think no matter what you read there is going to be research and information that tells you the opposite. I think its best to follow your own rules. Figure out what works for you and what makes you feel good and roll with it. That's what being a punk is all about. : )
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Permalink Reply by hajapapaya on -
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I think that the "conquest of fire" made people able to perservate "food" and to collect lots of "food", untill they became sick of dead perservated "food". The reason for having cattle and milk is somekind of greed as well. This all comes out of a lack inside the socalled "humans". Making slaves on medications out of animals. And the greed comes out of the lack and the lack comes out of the greed. The seven skinny cows eat up the seven fat cows, and then the illnesses come. I think that being vegan raw brings us back to fresh food and out of the lack and somehow as well out of the greed, cause fresh food you cannot buy half a year before you will eat it, and it makes no sense collecting it.
Conventional "human" "intelligence" is around these thoughts - how to fill the lack, and some crazy games around it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RtK5ZA7UEE
Its the same with grains...... "civilised" grains (wheat, rice, maize)... come out of the same purpose, feeding the slaves with what someone has collected.... seven thin cows eat up the seven fat cows...
for me vegan raw is the beginning of a spiritual way out of this circle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0IaCbOUXWI
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