With nutrition

[Roger B]

A big help with nutrition is the concept that our bodies and what we eat have been evolving over the past 3.5 billion years. This is called the "paleo diet". I am NOT married 100% to it since we are also spirit and mind, the Theory of Evolution does not take into account people living into their 70's, 80's, and 90's, and becoming a drain on the resources of their clan, and culture plays a role. But paleo thought helps a lot, and there are a lot of interesting twists and turns.

One of the main contributions of the paleo diet is that we human beings have not kept up genetically with the foods that we have started to eat and been developing since the agricultural revolution, supposedly 10,000 years. But there are wrinkles to this. My wife and sisters-in-law are only 500 years away from their agricultural revolution, and Filipinos have a lot of trouble with their gallbladder and liver when they move to the USA. 10,000 is just an estimate, but it is a very bad estimate for most people.

Those families and clans whose older members lived longest in good health had a selective advantage, since the oldsters passed along wisdom and nature lore and helped take care of the babies so that the women would help with hunting and foraging for roots and berries.

Some grains have also been evolving to have anti-nutrients. Those grains that developed anti-nutrients were less likely to be eaten than those grains that did not evolve anti-nutrients. Wheat, barley, rye and legumes are the usual suspects.

But the flip side of this is that fruit that were most tasty and most healthful would be eaten by people and animals who would eventually spread the seeds far and wide in their poop. If a fruit had a mutation that killed people, then it did not get it's seeds spread far and wide and it did not thrive.

Traditional foods would naturally be passed along by families and clans who were eating the right foods and who were thriving. Those who did not eat the right foods didn't pass their recipes along because they died early. This is sort of a cultural evolution. So, traditional foods are high on my list of health priorities.
Respectfully submitted,
Roger Bird

[Irene de Villiers]

And then we go mess it up by moving to a new country with completely differemt soil, plants and culture to which we are not adapted. The sins of easy long distance travel:-)
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