[ExI] More evidence for incomplete human adaptation to grain-based diets

[Stefano Vaj]

On 16 November 2010 21:42, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

> Paleo diet proponents--at least the ones
> I've read so far--argue that nobody should eat grains in any amount
> because our bodies can't handle them.
>

Why, it appears then that you chose not to read my replies... :-)

As I said, I am perfectly sure that we could wait for natural selection to
"adapt" us to what is (still) for us a rather unnatural diet, which brings
along innumerable pathologies and inconveniences in almost all of its fans.
Or we could even deliberately re-engineer ourselves to thrive on simple
sugars and starch.

The real question is: why?

We had very serious reasons in the past to accept - or rather: to make the
unwashed masses to accept - such a dietary change. But those reasons might
be fading away in the mid-term, and in the meantime anybody who does have a
choice would be ill-advised to remain addicted to such a nutritional life
style.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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