Of course you’re right. My point remains valid, though: the season has nothing at all to do with it. With this guy’s logic, unless you’re a South American Indian (specifically from Bolivia, Paraguay or Brazil) you should never eat pineapples, no matter what the season. And that’s presupposing that South American Indians have evolved to adapt to a diet involving pineapples. I have no idea if that is true.
While we’re on it, if you shouldn’t eat anything you’re not already “evolved to eat”, how does any creature ever “evolve to eat” anything?
Did the Eskimos actually EVOLVE or did they just change behaviors?
Can we point to something physically different about them aside from facial features?
His diet works mainly for the same reasons Atkins MOSTLY works:
Snacking on junk food can be a killer. Most such junk food is loaded with carbs. so :" No other animals eat carbs. We’re not designed for it. We didn’t evolve in bakeries, and so if it needs to be cooked to be edible, it’s not food. No refined sugars. Ever." removes a lot of junk foods.
Cutting any common food group out of your diet will help you lose weight. Grains are one of the easiest and will the fewest side effects. Meats can also be cut out. If you do Atkins remember it used to be called the 'steak & salad" diet and eat lots of salads and other low-carb veggies, thus his #6 is completely ciorrect. If you do Vegan, watch your amino acids (much easier nowadays) and add B-12.
But his diet likely works for him- it’s a modified Atkins, proven to work very well- in the short term. (Almost no diets work well in the long term as dudes don’t stick with them). Other that that, he’s full of shit. #1,2,5 are all crap.
About every herbivore and omnivore out there. With the exceptions of picky eaters like pandas (which are trying to get extinct anyway, we’re just insisting on not letting them) and koalas.
Some people think intelligence=disagreeing with conventional wisdom. They think they are smart because they are not foolish enough to fall for the mainstream, etc. Sometimes of course it is true that we must question convention but other times sound evidence and reason brought us there and that is why it is the norm. Sounds like he is one of those.
I find that people like this, while intelligent in speech and often very educated, don’t have the ability to distinguish between good and bad information. They just think themselves smart because they think they have come up with their own ‘original’ theories about things. It is hard or impossible to argue with them because data and studies that most people would turn to to support their opinions don’t matter to them, in fact, like you have said, they brush off evidence or experts simply because they support widestream theories. But if he could find one crackpot article supporting his diet I bet he would be all over it as proof.
You can easily find info supporting that animals eat grains though. Horses for example. As for the whole ‘eat what is in season’ thing - what if I travel around? Am I allowed to eat strawberries as long as I keep going to a place where they are in season? If I live in Alaska can I only eat fruits that are in season in Alaska?
I usually just don’t argue with people like this though. They argue from ego and not evidence and there is no way to convince someone like that.
Well, if you hold to the theory that we should eat the foods man ate as he evolved, then it would mean eating like one can in a tropical region, not a temperate one.
Foods in season doesn’t have much meaning in a tropical environment.
What we consider to be normal, natural, grain-based food is the result of thousand of years of selective breeding and recently, genetic engineering. Many fruits and vegetables we commonly eat are freakish monsters compared to their pre-civilization ancestors.
While I’m in no way defending him in particular, there is some merit to the idea that our diets have resulted in the “diseases of civilization” - obesity, diabetes, etc.
It’s not some inherent property of the food, but rather that the hormonal systems that control digestion evolved to work with ranges of foods and macronutrients far out of line with what we commonly eat in modern civilization.
Primarily, with our selectively bred, agrarian diet, we consume far more carbohydrates than would ever have been available to most pre-civilization humans. Generally, by several orders of magnitude, on a daily basis. The hormonal systems that control the digestion relating to that, primarily insulin, is massively overworked relative to what it physiologically evolved to handle, and you start developing all the problems of “syndrome X”, or whatever they’re calling it these days, insulin resistance.
So the idea that modern diets aren’t what we’re suited for physiologically has merit.
I have it good authority that a typical caveman subsisted mainly on poultry and tropical fruit. The roast duck with mango salsa seems to have been a common meal.
