If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#21
|
|||
|
|||
Diet Linked To Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 17:38:38 +0100, "pearl"
posted: "Moosh" wrote in message ... On 30 Mar 2004 08:20:22 -0800, (jpatti) posted: .. There are archeological studies indicating humans were much healthier prior to the development of agriculture... Some were, some weren't. Archeological evidence is very sparse and often contradictory in my experience on a much lower-carb diet. Whoa! Some ate a lot of meat and some ate little. Some ate lots of fish some ate little or none. Most gathered seeds and fruits and juices and tubers.... Larger skeletons, better tetth, stuff of that sort. In some, and not in others. 'Anthropologically speaking, humans were high consumers of calcium until the onset of the Agricultural Age, 10,000 years ago. What does that mean? Anthropologically speaking? Very little tenuous evidence, or what? Current calcium intake is one-quarter to one-third that of our evolutionary diet and, if we are genetically identical to the Late Paleolithic Homo sapiens, we may be consuming a calcium-deficient diet our bodies cannot adjust to by physiologic mechanisms. No reliable evidence though? The anthropological approach says, with the exception of a few small changes related to genetic blood diseases, that humans are basically identical biologically and medically to the hunter-gatherers of the late Paleolithic Era.17 During this period, calcium content of the diet was much higher than it is currently. Depending on the ratio of animal to plant foods, calcium intake could have exceeded 2000 mg per day.17 Calcium was largely derived from wild plants, which had a very high calcium content; Which ones? Grown where? Calcium rich soils or calcium poor soils? animal protein played a small role, and the use of dairy products did not come into play until the Agricultural Age 10,000 years ago. Not sure about that. Some early humans are thought to have "caught" some animal milks. Compared to the current intake of approximately 500 mg per day for women age 20 and over in the United States,18 hunter-gatherers had a significantly higher calcium intake and apparently much stronger bones. Sorry, what did these women eat? As late as 12,000 years ago, Stone Age hunters had an average of 17-percent more bone density (as measured by humeral cortical thickness). Bone density also appeared to be stable over time with an apparent absence of osteoporosis.17 Exercise -- Sheeeesh! High levels of calcium excretion via renal losses are seen with both high salt and high protein diets, in each case at levels common in the United States.10,11 High salt and high protein was likely in the diets of SOME prehistoric humans. .. The only hunter-gatherers that seemed to fall prey to bone loss were the aboriginal Inuit (Eskimos). Although their physical activity level was high, their osteoporosis incidence exceeded even present-day levels in the United States. The Inuit diet was high in phosphorus and protein and low in calcium.20 http://www.thorne.com/altmedrev/full...alcium4-2.html And very high in protein. 'Ethnographic parallels with modern hunter-gatherer communities have been taken to show that the colder the climate, the greater the reliance on meat. There are sound biological and economic reasons for this, not least in the ready availability of large amounts of fat in arctic mammals. From this, it has been deduced that the humans of the glacial periods were primarily hunters, while plant foods were more important during the interglacials. ' http://www.phancocks.pwp.blueyonder..../devensian.htm Whereabout? Indonesia? Africa? India? |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Diet Soda [aspartame] Dangerous? Shari Lieberman, The O'Reilly Factor 3.19.4: Murray 3.23.4 rmforall | Rich Murray | General Discussion | 15 | March 27th, 2004 03:22 AM |
Uncovering the Atkins diet secret | Diarmid Logan | General Discussion | 135 | February 14th, 2004 04:56 PM |
Low carb diets | General Discussion | 249 | January 8th, 2004 11:15 PM | |
Atkins diet may reduce seizures in children with epilepsy | Diarmid Logan | General Discussion | 23 | December 14th, 2003 11:39 AM |
Is excess sugar consumption linked to cancer? | Diarmid Logan | General Discussion | 6 | October 8th, 2003 09:01 PM |