Shuurai wrote:
> jombithedjinn wrote:
> > Krusty wrote:
> > > "trijcomm" > wrote ...
> > > > >That's really unfair, Janis. Where did you learn all this info....was
> > > > the setup to one of your women's apartment wrestling videos some chick
> > > >>in pantyhose reading an Atkins diet book?
> > > >
> > > > You should really look into that Atkins diet book ...
> > >
> > > Hardly, it's a "diet" for idiots.
> > >
> > > Get a biology degree and *really* learn about food.
> >
> > You obviously know nothing about nutrition. Do you REALLY think human
> > beings were truly meant to eat grass like wheat and barley? I'm sure
> > that you do, you're just the type to be so undereducated.
>
> Well, regardless of what you think humans are "meant" to be eating, the
> fact of the matter is that wheat, barley, and so forth have been
> staples of human consumption for eons. In fact, the rise of human
> civilization has been directly correlated with the successful
> cultivation of these grains.

Not eons, unless you count a few thousand years as eons.

Cancer and diabetes have been directly correlated with the successful
cultivation of those grains (and civilization) as well.


>
> You might consider the fact that we humans have molars - teeth
> specifically designed for grinding fiberous materials like *gasp*
> grains;

Green, leafy vegetables. Not grains.


and the fact that we've had them for as long as we've existed
> as a species. All of which indicates that, gee whiz, maybe the idea of
> humans eating grains isn't so far out of left field as you're
> suggesting.

There's a distinct difference between greens and grains.


>
> > Typical diets are inferior to the atkins diet strictly because the
> > conventional diets would have people eat foods that nature never
> > intended for human beings to eat. Humans were meant to eat meat, eggs,
> > green leafy vegetables, and certain berries. They were certainly not
> > meant to eat wheat grass.
>
> If we were not "meant" to be eating grains, we would not have teeth
> specifically designed for chewing them.

We don't.

We wouldn't have enzymes
> specifically designed for digesting them.

We don't.


We wouldn't have survived
> and in fact *thrived* on them for thousands and thousands of years.

We haven't. We've cultivated grain for roughly less than ten thousand
years.



>
> If you agree with the Adkins diet, good for you. If you start asking
> doctors and nutritionists, some of them will agree with you - others
> will not. But your assertion that humans are not "meant" to eat grains
> is utter nonsense. Human anatomy says otherwise - as does human
> history.

We were meant to eat salad vegetables, not grains.zx