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Then what should we be eating?
Posted by: Deep Dad Nine on September 09, 1999 at 11:19:29:
In Reply to: We are what we eat? Yes.... posted by Darya on September 09, 1999 at 00:45:02:
Yes, that's an interesting point. It begs an old question on this forum: What are WE (Americans) supposed to be eating? And a better question might be: What are American bodies programmed to eat. It may not be a simple question to answer given the diverse combinations of ancestories of Americans. Another good question might be: How long does it take for a dietary program to instate itself in the human phisiology to the degree that, if the body goes off the program, health problems will ensue? Perhaps we should all be eating whatever the ealiest civilizations were eating? If not, shouldn't we at least be looking at what our ancestors ate before they started getting fat, violent, and stupid? Perhaps we only need to rewind our diets 50 years or so before PROCESSED foods became popular. Were people dropping dead of cancer and heart disease 100 years ago at the rate they are today? My understanding is that 50% of all males that are alive today will die of cancer. Has anyone else heard this statistic? Is it true? Where does it come from? I think its terrifying and very very telling.
I think it should be very obvious from stats like this one that we have taken a bad turn somewhere.
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