Fat = Flavor wrote:
Your right! Humans ran on meat for 1.7 million years before the slavemasters convinced that handfuls of grain were actual "food", and the decline began. Paleo/primal all the way!
It's the Food wrote:It is just another proof that it is the food that one chooses to eat that is a major factor in cardio-vascular health.
Investigate and find out which dietary lifestyle promotes optimal cardio-vascular health.
nutritionfacts.org
(Sorry to continue somewhat off-topic debate, but since he died of CVD, it does matter to people and runners)
LOL @ the diet fad dude. Humans "ran on meat" ?? That's all they ate? Not even close. And the meat was a lot leaner than much of today's "meat.". And in some parts of the world humans ate little meat. It was different all over the globe, and different during the different seasons. Also, most of the paleo ancestors you idolize died young, so we don't how their diet would have served them if they lived longer. Or lived in a modern world where they weren't working their butts off all day long.
Furthermore, our ape ancestors were eating no meat and lots of wild grasses (grain) for aeons and aeons. Yes, our genetics are tied to their history too of course. Many of the societies that have existed in the 20th century or beyond (even societies today) that eat very high carb/low meat diets have the lowest levels of CVD ever recorded.
So your primal/paleo theory is garbage. Sorry to burst your bubble. Now I am not saying one can't be healthy and eat a fair amount of meat, but to say a high meat diet is the only way to go for health, and that eating grains is horrible for one's health is simply 100% BS.
Some people have naturally have high blood cholesterol and clogged arteries * no matter what they eat or how much they exercise.* That is a fact.
There is no perfect diet, and many variations can be healthy. But there is zero proof that a very high meat, high sat fat/very low carb diet (even if it includes lots of veggies) is superior for heart health than is a low meat, low sat fat, higher carb (high fruit, high veggies, high whole grain) diet. Really. Honestly. Truthfully.
Your welcome (and the spelling of the second to last word of mine was of course on purpose. Your "your" to start your post, I am not so sure)
RIP Tom Fleming