filling sponges

[Roger B]

Trying to get healthy by taking a lot of pills is like trying to fill a sponge with an eyedropper. Submerging the sponge in a bucket of water is like changing one's diet to paleo/Weston A. Price/primal.

You can't keep track of all of the details. You don't know all of the details. Health scientists and doctors would like you to believe that they and they alone KNOW what is best for you, but they keep discovering new things every week, so it is obvious that they don't know everything. But you don't need to know everything. You just need to know that your genes were adapted for a paleo diet/lifestyle and traditional cuisines were developed to be as healthy as possible, since it was mothers and sisters and daughters who did most of the food preparation for hundreds of thousands of years, and they actually care about their family members. And the modern diet with it's processed foods was developed to maximize the profits of people who don't give a fig about your health and well-being.

One of the most important characteristics of the "paleo diet" (which should really be called paleo thinking) is that early man did not have access to much in the way of carbs. I doubt if the folks 200,000 years ago got even 50 grams per day of carbs, mostly in the form of roots and berries, while most modern humans eat 200 to 300 or more grams of carb per day. The human body can only store about 1 lbs. of carbs, in the liver and muscles. After that it starts to convert the carbs into fat and stores it as fat. The human body can store massively more as protein, in the form of muscles, and fat, as excess body fat. The only conclusion that one can come to is that the human body was not designed for a lot of carbs.

I am so much easier to get along with now that I have become fat adapted rather than sugar (carbs, since all carbs become glucose in the body) adapted. And my minor diabetes symptoms are now reversing.

Roger Bird