Charles Hunts Diet Evolution

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Throughout history, when man has turned away from the traditional "prehistoric" diet that evolution designed him to eat to an agrarian (grain-based) one, a serious delcine in health has occurred. We think you Throughwill find the following information about these two kinds of diets startling as well as tascinating. Most experts agree that game-hunting was the prima- ry means ...(展開全部) Throughout history, when man has turned away from the traditional "prehistoric" diet that evolution designed him to eat to an agrarian (grain-based) one, a serious delcine in health has occurred. We think you Throughwill find the following information about these two kinds of diets startling as well as tascinating. Most experts agree that game-hunting was the prima- ry means of sustenance for our ancestors 700,000 years ago. From that time until the beginnings of agriculture (about 8,000 to 10,000 years ago), man lived on a diet composed predominantly of meat of one sort or another. In fact scientists estimate that from 60 to 90 percent ot the calories these early people consumed were in the form of large and small game animals, birds, eggs, rep- tiles, and insects. The forces of natural selection acting over some 7,000 centuries shaped and molded our phys- iology to function optimally on a diet consisting pre- dominantly of meat supplemented with roots, shoots, berries, seeds, and nutsl Only within the last 100 cen- turies have we reversed the order to become mainly car- bohydrate eaters-- with meat as the supplement.This dietary reversal-from a diet providing, on average, about 75 percent of its calories from some sort of meat with the remainder coming from plants, to one in which

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