The Hunter Gatherer Diet

[pmcd9]

I blame this bullshit on us accidentally domesticating ourselves.

Whoops!

[side_show]

I have a friend who is a naturopath and she recommends eating as much food as possible from what would be the traditional diet of your ancestors (which varies depending on where your people are from).  For me that's things like bison, local giraffe, berries, squash, possibly corn and nuts (hard to know how far my ancestors wandered south).   I do think that increasing the amount of locally sourced, unprocessed food makes my body feel better, but I am by no means adhearant to only eating an ancestral diet.  

The thing I really think about this:  our ancestors lived short, brutal lives.  When they didn't die due to circumstance they typically still died young of disease, virus or other such cause.  I'm happy I get to live beyond 40, and to get to keep a full mouth of teeth into old age.  If you look at people of the Inuit of the far north, who still must depend predominantly on a traditional diet because food shipped that far north costs too much to make it accessable, you'll see a group of people who are free of some of the typical 21st century health issues, but people who have poor dental health and who don't live into old age.  

When it comes to all those eating fads out there, I'm skeptical.  We live in this world, in 2011.  The world (and your heart) will not stop of you eat a Dorito now and then.  People get so extremist about this shit (to the point where it looks a hell of a lot like disordered eating) when really it's just about not bullshitting yourself and eating and living responsibly.

[Asherdan]

Y'all are laying down with the uncommon common sense.

Plus, eating like my ancestors would have me leaving out the delicious banana. Straight deal breaker, right there. Anyone who wants to tell me I shouldn't eat a delicious banana is gonna get a verbal assault.

[wombat]

Thank you wombles. I swear to jeebus I lay that kind of rap on some asshole at least once a week.

You should buy them all copies of my book! Coming out October 4! It's only about the animals part of it, but it's a start. And so much cheaper than my first book!

[Asherdan]

In my mind I come up with some 2'x3' vinyl stickers of the book cover and every time I run into someone who needs it I reach out and smoosh one onto the breast of their shirt, then lean in and hiss "read the friggin' book."

[wombat]

The cover would make great stickers. Perhaps I should think about this.

[Asherdan]

Yes, you should. Because if it comes off as a good idea to me...well, my tastes are pretty broad. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

They don't have to be the fancy schmancy vinyl ones, that was just me being Lord-Duke Puttees about things.

[theinevitable]

my diet is that I eat what I think is "good food" that grownups should eat, and then every once in a while I realize that all I eat is meat and cheese and potatoes and rice and sodium. Oops. I eat veggies when they are smooshed into some sort of stew or indian sauce.

Recently, with the cold weather, I started wearing long ##### again. Suddenly all of my skinny ##### are uncomfortably tight. Oops.

People also say you shouldn't eat late at night, but I get off work at 10pm three days a week. I typically eat my biggest meal right before I go to sleep, because at the end of the day I am freaking HUNGRY.

[smick]

FOOD CHAIN!  GET USED TO IT!

[Nabubrush]

I eat breakfast and lunch and that's it.

[Asherdan]

FOOD CHAIN!  GET USED TO IT!