Mon, Sep-23-02, 21:25
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Posts: 12
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 275/245/200
BF:
Progress: 40%
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Originally posted by doreen T
From a paleo-perspective, humans were not designed to eat grains. We cannot digest them unless they've been processed and refined in some way ... including threshing, drying, grinding and ultimately ... cooking. Creatures that ARE designed to eat grains usually have extra stomachs and/or longer colons (large intestines) with a high bacterial flora content, necessary for breaking down the cellulose fibers and deriving nutrients from them.
Doreen
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I cannot really buy this paleo perspective. Humans did not evolve glying airplanes, reading books, or using fire to cook meat. And where would Atkins be without cooked meat? Fruit is also pretty much banned on Atkins, but surely there was fruit growing on trees as our anscestors were in their hunter/gatherer stage--so the paleo perspective breaks down again.
To a great extent, grains are bad for humans who are basically sedentary. I once heard a group of elite athlettes asked whether they follow any kind of special diet. They all laughed and said no. When you're living in hotel rooms, they said, it's hard to follow any diet, and when you're running a hundred miles per week (and only 25) it really doesn't matter what you ingest.
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