I’ve suffered on a number of occasions from too much animal fat. A really fatty burger or pizza can lead to distress. (“Da runs.”)
Also, too much cheese can lead to constipation. Some foods need to be taken in moderation.
Other than beans, I don’t think this has ever happened to me.
That sounds like an allergy, rather than a digestive problem. It doesn’t actually undermine your point, either way. My own experience is different than yours, but that doesn’t prove much either. The sample size is too small.
When humans started eating high-carbohydrate foods (like rice, potatoes, manioc, etc.), did humans suffer from it? I recall reading of a modern experiment, where a man ate nothing but potatoes for something like 5 months. it turned out that he was quite healthy-he had excellent blood sugar and cholesterol levels. The potato was cheap, easy to grow , and pound for pound, very nutritious-its arrival in Europe allowed the population to grow at a much faster rate.
one guy? Look, I think we all agree that the “standard american diet” is incredibly unhealthy, yet we still manage to live 60+ years on it. but I can’t imagine subsisting 5 months on relatively protein-poor potatoes would have no deleterious health effects.
Except the core definition of xxx-vore is “this creature eats xxx”. On a purely descriptive basis, people are obviously omnivores, because people eat a wide variety of plants and animals. All the article was saying (apparently incorrectly as to facts, but it doesn’t really matter) is that people, despite (obviously) being omnivores, have some traits commonly found in herbivores.
Pandas are obligate herbivores but evolved somewhat recently from carnivore-leaning omnivores (other types of bears.) So they have a lot of carnivore-like traits, despite being herbivores. It doesn’t mean they are supposed to eat meat, or that it would be good for them to eat meat. It is just an evolutionary quirk.
Also, I wanted to answer this. I don’t know why you have been told meat has to be cook “properly”, but I can assure you from personal experience that is a false assertion. I have eaten (and enjoyed) raw oysters, raw clams, raw scallops, raw ants, raw shrimp, raw squid (okay, I didn’t enjoy that), raw octopus, too many species of raw fin-fish to name, raw chicken eggs, raw beef, and raw horse. I’ve also eaten lamb and pork that were seared on the outside, but had portions within that were raw for any practical purpose. Some of those were slightly risky*, but in fact, I have never suffered any ill effects from eating raw flesh, and generally have found it tasty and filling.
The riskiest was probably the raw clams/oysters. They are filter-feeders and can pick up any infectious disease carried by sewage they happen to consume. And yet, they are commonly eaten raw in the US. You hear a lot about the risk of undercooked pork, because pig is a carrier or trichinosis. But the risk of trichinosis in commercially sold pork in the US is almost non-existent today, due to strong public health laws regarding the feeding of pigs that will be used as food. I’ve read that most cases of trichinosis in the US today are traced to wild bear (another carrier) and typically it was spread to the next person whose meat was ground in the machine used to grind the bear meat, since people who intentionally eat bear know that it is somewhat risky and do cook it.
Also, while animals obviously carry diseases that we might catch, plants that are grown in dirt do, too. And most plants are grown in dirt.
"A diet of just potatoes will be deficient in vitamins A, E and K, the minerals calcium and selenium, essential fatty acids, protein and dietary fibre. Although they may provide enough iron for a man, they will not provide enough iron for women.
WHO, WHAT, WHY?
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“One way of addressing the vitamin shortfall would be to substitute white potatoes with sweet potatoes, which have more vitamin E and A.”
Mr Voigt did not take any multivitamins - something she says would help anyone undergoing this kind of regime.
I read the same thing is some reputable source. That the Irish diet was mostly potatoes and milk, which TOGETHER provided most of the calories and nutrients needed.
Untrue. Potatoes contain vitamin C, but the usual cooking methods destroy it. You can eat them raw, though, and get vitamin C that way. If all you’re eating is potatoes you might have some raw just for a change of taste and texture.
Adam and Eve didn’t exist, except as characters in a story. Had the author of the story wanted to put in a part that required the characters to have tools,* you may rest assured that they would have had tools.
Of course they did. Somewhere, some time, there must have been a first Human couple. in fact the idea of “Eve” as the “first human*” is a scientific hypothesis:
The article states very clearly that Mitochondrial Eve is not the first human female. There’s no reason to believe that there was anything like a “first human couple”; there aren’t any bright lines when it comes to species forming.
