Evolution works by avoiding anything that will make survival of the species less likely. Food intake is something that happens at a given moment, when hunger commands actions. Our species, the humans, is supposed to have appeared in Africa. It was no more than 50,000 years ago that the first group left the African environment, to wander in regions where the food supplied must have been different from what was available in the original African habitat.
Some groups left Africa, some groups stayed in Africa. During the last 250,000 years, the conditions of the Planet have changed. Our species has been living only for 220,000 years. We are a relatively new species, who has had to endure radical changes in climate and general habitat conditions.
It is a fact that we are capable of eating almost anything without falling dead on the spot — except for some specific poisonous fruits, seeds and minerals. So, our daily diet could have been almost anything.
However, our bodies bear important indicators that we evolved — as we became humans — into
creatures perfectly fit for the consumption of plant food, and capable of eating — without falling dead on the spot — a number of other foods, mainly animal meat, eggs, milk, fish or poultry.
We do not posses anatomical traits similar to those species specialized in eating meat. It’s a fact that we don’t use our teeth — we don’t even have the proper ones for such job — to kill our prey. We like to dismember them, preferably with some kind of tool, cook it, and only then proceed to eat it. However, if we find fresh fruit or even vegetables, we can take it directly into our mouths.
It must have been a problem for those groups wandering in territories without the concentration of plant food offer, when they discovered that they would need to rely mostly on hunting and cooking, instead of simply picking up and sharing. But we are a highly intelligent species. Intelligence means high capacity to adapt to changes in the environment. And that’s exactly what we must have done in order to populate regions of the world rather poor in plant or animal food offering.
Our response to those difficult regions is what we call today agriculture, which includes planting crops or grains, legumes, fruits, nuts and growing domesticated animals — chicken, lamb, cattle, pork, and their byproducts. We have used our brain capacity to adapt to any habitat that we chose to occupy on the Planet.
We are 7 billion individuals today, and counting. We are in a messy situation. A lot of the “intelligent” people are now immersed into a magic trust for the system, which includes medical doctors. Our medical technology has made possible incredible workings in damaged human bodies. Individuals who would have died in the past, have survived thanks to medical surgery and proper drug administration. I am not thinking here about chronic diseases, but about accidental or combat events.
And it has been precisely that very advanced medical technology that has uncovered what we now know as chronic diseases, including cancer, heart failure, artery clotting, auto immune problems, lupus, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and what-have-you. Our medical sages are rather perplex in front of these chronic diseases. They use medical high tech to remedy damaged bodies, but they have no real, honest idea, of why such bodies are getting damaged.
“It’s in your genes”, they say. “Take these supplements”, is another story. “Avoid breathing this and that”, they proclaim. But the Fight on Cancer has had, as a result, more cancer!
If we look around us, our latest beloved ones have died, all of them from one of those so called Chronic Diseases. Take your pick: which one is more acceptable for you?
And then a number of studies made by responsible people, without commercial agendas, start linking diet to any one of those chronic diseases.
And then, one study, finds that at least ONE AMINO ACID present in ANIMAL PROTEIN acts as a positive catalyzer of cancer in rats. Take the animal protein away from the diet, and away goes the cancer! Put the animal protein back in, and in comes back the cancer! Or put some plant food protein in without the amino acid and no cancer! Include the plant food protein with the amino acid and back comes the cancer!
That is enough for me to decide that I better keep away from any protein that might contain such amino acid. Google “PlanEat” and watch the documentary. More and more independent studies are linking animal food to the other chronic diseases.
The fact that we are capable of eating almost anything and not die on the spot — but die after several years from any one of the variety of chronic diseases — is a heavy trick, a real challenge to human intelligence. Sometimes we need to accept that a different paradigm is on the verge of erupting. Change is always uneasy for humans, and change is always the basis for continual survival.
(This post is an entry in my Blog:
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