tert in seattle wrote:
> Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 20:15:49 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle wrote:
>>
>>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 18:13:08 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 00:34:13 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> reversing evolution. Our bodies (and digestive systems) have evolved
>>>>>>>> greatly since Paleolithic times so it certainly doesn't make sense
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't know about other stuff, but if you want to get scientific, the
>>>>>>> human digestive system clearly puts us in the frugivore category, just
>>>>>>> the same as most other primates
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> there is a theory that our brains became larger as a result of cooking
>>>>>>> food and greater availability of glucose (less work chewing, more work
>>>>>>> thinking)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> but our teeth haven't changed much and neither have our innards
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And you're wrong on both counts. Our digestive system, starting in
>>>>>> the mouth changed significantly once we started cooking food. We are
>>>>>> clearly not frugivores. You've been reading too many raw/vegetarian
>>>>>> kook sites.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -sw
>>>>>
>>>>> I posted this before -- here's yer kook website
>>>>>
>>>>> "In other words, there is very little evidence that our guts are terribly
>>>>> special and the job of a generalist primate gut is primarily to eat
>>>>> pieces of plants."
>>>>>
>>>>> <http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/human-ancestors-were-nearly-all-vegetarians/>
>>>>>
>>>>> He does come right out and say that our digestive system *did* evolve
>>>>> with agriculture and processing (fermenting and cooking) of food, but
>>>>> not anatomically -- which is what I meant by teeth and innards -- but
>>>>> physiologically, with upregulation of amylase and persistence of lactase
>>>>> into adulthood.
>>>>
>>>> The human digestive became *physically* shorter with the introduction
>>>> of cooked meat and plants that were easier to digest. Our jaws and
>>>> teeth became smaller and weaker because food became softer.
>>>
>>> you mean "humanoid" digestive ...tract?
>>
>> The digestive SYSTEM of humans.
>
> well, the digestive system of humans doesn't have a length, really, but
> the tract does
>
> and the digestive tract of humans (homo sapiens sapiens) hasn't changed
> at all
>
>>> clearly we don't frequent the same kook websites
>>
>> Here it is, short and sweet for you from the Smithsonian Institute of
>> Natural History.
>>
>> http://humanorigins.si.edu/human-characteristics/bodies
>>
>> Reason: Meat and cooked foods. You suck at this vegetarian thang.
>>
>> -sw
>
> relax, Steve - I am not doing a vegetarian thang - you are just paranoid
>
NO...he's a craven woman stalker:
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"Why do you even bother posting if that's all you have to say? We've
heard the same thing at least 2,000 times by now."
-sw
"OK, so it's your planet so I guess you get to define what all teens on
Planet Bove eat. We'll need to add this to the Planet Bove Wikipedia
entry: "Teenagers on Planet Bove only eat chicken strips, fries, and
baby carrots".
-sw
"Incredible. And you STILL don't shut up."
-sw
I thought you were here just to talk about cooking? You've only said
that at least 25 times, yet 95% of the flack you get is about
off-topic subjects.
-sw
Way to go, Julie! You beat her down into speechlessness.
-sw
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