We're adaptable. It's possible to live on a Vegan diet and it's possible to
live on a 100% meat diet (Inuit).
But in the hunter/gatherer phase of Homo sapiens, which continues in pockets,
meat tended to be occasional and fruit/vegies the staple except in coastal
areas (fish, shellfish).
Andrew Fildes
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On 10/02/2013, at 7:49 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Regardless of Pritikin's particular fate the DATA shows that those with
> low cholesterol die sooner from any and all causes except, perhaps,
> heart disease. Perhaps his diet was the cause of the return of his
> lukemia which he had avoided for so many years. I hope it works for you
> but I'm not at all convinced. Humans are omnivores and we were largely
> meat eaters until the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago.
> But, biologically, we are not yet adapted to a vegetarian diet.
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