cave man diet??

[DanielBishop]

Apparently the Australian aborigines (males) only "worked" about two hours a day.... (how they know this, I'm not sure).... but that's what I've read.

And it's not like you're going out looking for a new wild animal EVERY SINGLE DAY. And it's not like you eat red meat EVERY SINGLE DAY. It changes.... the activity levels change. I mean, I'm active for at least two hours every day.... but the Aborigines are a hell of a lot leaner than me.

I'm not disputing what you're saying, but there's uncertainties in some of it.

I'm trying to figure out how they know for sure exactly how muscular a caveman was.... especially since there's no muscular remains. Aside from bones, isn't most anthropolgy and achealogy just educated guesswork?

 

[MS]

I sense a fundamental misunderstanding of the caveman and their diet. They preferred meat when they could get a kill. Before they even considered carrying anything back to their cave they almost CERTAINLY would have eaten the liver, heart and kidneys first. This was eaten raw and fresh. The liver of a well fed herbivore is full of glycogen. They may have carried the rest back to their cave (most likely to feed the women and children because they would have already had their pig out) but in any case, the entire kill would be eaten essentially in one sitting. the beast would have been a lot leaner than modern day livestock too. They didn't have fridges and freezers, and the smell of a fresh kill in your cave was an irresistabel ticket for your local saber tooth to come an visit.

Aside from that, your average caveman, especially at the end of a long hard winter, would be desperately craving carbs. You can bet your last dollar that when they found a laden fruit tree or a stash of honey, they would have gorged themselves on this until they were sick or ran out of the stuff. They wouldn't have looked twice at a field full of grain, except for the possible herbivore they might catch in it. Their lives were short, very physical, and were pretty much a feast or famine type of eating. You try eating 5000 cals of fresh, raw organ meat in one huge meal, and next day eat 5000cals worth of apples and see if you gain fat! Any diet that trys to tell you that the caveman thrived on 6 small, regular meals a day of cooked eggs, muscle meat, fish and steamed veggies, with little or no carbs/fruit (and therefore so will you) is fad diet based on wishful thinking. The lack of degenerative diseases is an even sillier arguement to use for a culture that had such a short lifespan. Physiologically we have changed very little from cavemen, but socially we need to adapt our diet. Do you really think we can feed 6 billion people on a caveman diet?? Estimates very from 100,000 to 1 million cavemen that ever roamed the earth at once. America alone now has something like 300 million people.........

Do you really think you want to eat and live like that just so you can remain lean and slightly muscular? Me thinks there are easier ways.

 

[OMEGA]

Oh, by the way, if this doesn't make any sense, it's because I just drank a fifth and a half of red wine. I'm just trying to prevent heart disease. [/B][/QUOTE]






perfect sense