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The diet of the aboriginal Australians:
By caloric intake: 60 - 80% Animal Products, 20 - 40% plants.
This looks like their diet is mostly meat but that's actually incorrect. Plants contain 1/10th calorie density of meat. Looking at calculated volume tells a very different story.
By volume intake: 15% - 40% animal products, 60 - 85% plants.
If this is your diet than even though you eat mostly plants, you're actually getting most of your dietary requirements from animal products.
What about raw vs cooked? We're discovering more and more how important the gut microbiome is to our health, when you eat only cooked food (AKA most people on the SAD or Carnivore diets) you are not expanding the variety of microbes in your intestinal flora. This doesn't matter at first, but overtime it will as your microbiome loses genetic diversity.
If you point to the Inuits or the Mongols as examples of people who eat primarily animal products and are extremely healthy, that's great! They are a prime example of largely healthy populations. But I doubt the majority of your diet is raw meat (full of microbes for our microbiome) from only wild animals or domesticated ones who graze on wild grasses. Also, the Mongols would eat berries, roots, herbs, and wild grains in addition to animal products.
I have never been a fan of any absolute extreme diets. Any diet that prohibits the eating of certain foods, is too constricting for most people and removes valuable potential sources of nutrients that may lead to deficiencies.
I've never been on any diet other than trying to choose healthy choices in general and overall, taking everything in moderation, one day at a time. Am I the healthiest person in the world? Certainly not, my options are limited due to geographical availability and cost, but I'm doing my best to eat variety and avoid processed foods overall.
One thing we can all agree on is that the SAD (Standard American Diet) is toxic and full of unhealthy processed foods. Since the guidelines on "healthy eating" are so obviously and thoroughly corrupted, we're left to figure out what is it that is actually healthy. I choose a diet dominated by (mostly raw) plants by volume, but by animal products by energy density.
Cheers. 🍻
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KenDBerryMD (npub1kyk…ea0g) I'd love your take on this.
By caloric intake: 60 - 80% Animal Products, 20 - 40% plants.
This looks like their diet is mostly meat but that's actually incorrect. Plants contain 1/10th calorie density of meat. Looking at calculated volume tells a very different story.
By volume intake: 15% - 40% animal products, 60 - 85% plants.
If this is your diet than even though you eat mostly plants, you're actually getting most of your dietary requirements from animal products.
What about raw vs cooked? We're discovering more and more how important the gut microbiome is to our health, when you eat only cooked food (AKA most people on the SAD or Carnivore diets) you are not expanding the variety of microbes in your intestinal flora. This doesn't matter at first, but overtime it will as your microbiome loses genetic diversity.
If you point to the Inuits or the Mongols as examples of people who eat primarily animal products and are extremely healthy, that's great! They are a prime example of largely healthy populations. But I doubt the majority of your diet is raw meat (full of microbes for our microbiome) from only wild animals or domesticated ones who graze on wild grasses. Also, the Mongols would eat berries, roots, herbs, and wild grains in addition to animal products.
I have never been a fan of any absolute extreme diets. Any diet that prohibits the eating of certain foods, is too constricting for most people and removes valuable potential sources of nutrients that may lead to deficiencies.
I've never been on any diet other than trying to choose healthy choices in general and overall, taking everything in moderation, one day at a time. Am I the healthiest person in the world? Certainly not, my options are limited due to geographical availability and cost, but I'm doing my best to eat variety and avoid processed foods overall.
One thing we can all agree on is that the SAD (Standard American Diet) is toxic and full of unhealthy processed foods. Since the guidelines on "healthy eating" are so obviously and thoroughly corrupted, we're left to figure out what is it that is actually healthy. I choose a diet dominated by (mostly raw) plants by volume, but by animal products by energy density.
Cheers. 🍻
☮️♥️₿
KenDBerryMD (npub1kyk…ea0g) I'd love your take on this.