UllrsIshtar -> RE: Healthy Submissives (9/26/2015 1:41:50 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DesFIP Half the world lives off of brown rice, high fiber plant food based foods. I'm not eating tons of bacon or butter so I don't get your point. Complex carbs are recommended. They're different than simple carbs like sugar and white flour. Complex carbs are recommended because a US government commission at one point decided to recommend them because they figured out it would be a cheap way to make sure that everybody could afford 2000 calories a day. The recommendation was based against medical and scientific advice at the time and still is. They ignored several scientists at the time trying to make different recommendations, because they decided that the price of the recommended diet was too high for the American lower class to afford. Half the world has lived off brown rice and high fiber plant based foods since the agricultural revolution, which is a fairly recent event in our history. The agricultural revolution has been called, by experts in the field "the biggest mistake in human history" precisely because -based on skeleton remains- people have gotten progressively sicker from it. Pre-agricultural societies were taller, had zero instances of tooth decay, had zero signs of heart-disease and a whole host of other diseases that leave evidence in bones. Time and time again the skeletal remains all over the planet show a steep drop in human health, and a steep drop in healthy aging in senior skeletons, the moment a society switched to agriculture and started basing large portions of their diets on carbs and grains (something unknown to humanity at that point). The reason agriculture and carb based diets have been adapted by most of the planet is because it's cheap and relatively easy to feed large groups of people on high carb based diets. Much cheaper, and much easier than to feed the same number of people on a diet we'd been eating the 2.5 million years before that (we've been eating a carb based diet for only 10,000 years to give you a comparison). American cattle is fed on grains now too, despite it being unnatural and unhealthy for them (to the point that they need to be slaughtered when they are, because their life-expectancy isn't much longer than that on a grain based diet, despite being years shorter from what healthy cattle's life expectancy is). We feed cattle grain, not because they need it, but because it's cheaper and easier than feeding them their natural diets. They survive on it till slaughter, but wouldn't survive on it for the duration of their natural life. Just because a diet is cheap in providing you with the amount of calories you need to not drop death doesn't mean it's the diet you're built to eat, nor does it mean it's healthy, as the record plainly shows by the drop in human health when we switched. Humanity thrived for 2.5 million years with complex carbs being only a tiny fraction of our diets. The traditional source of complex carbs in our ancestor's diets were green leafy vegetables. You do not need them in anywhere near the quantities you're eating them. Nobody needs them in that amount of quantities. You can cut any source of complex carb that isn't a fruit or vegetable out of your diet and your health will improve for it. You are not built to get 50% or more of your caloric intake from carbs. A high carb diet will make you survive, at least to a certain extend, because it's an easy way to get enough calories. It will never make you thrive, because precisely because it's so high in calories but very low in nutrient density compared to the diet you're built to eat, you will always run at a nutrient deficiency on it unless you eat an insane amount of calories. Try putting in your typical diet in a nutrient calculator online. You will see that no matter what combination you use, if half of your calories are based on carbs, you will have a nutrient deficiency every single day. Putting in the same amount of calories on a low carb, varied high natural foods diet, you will run at a nutrient excess every single day.
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