PERSONAL DIETS
Prehistoric Nutrition
You are what your ancestors ate
By Mark Isaac Thyss
Garden of Healing®
How many people consider their dietary past?
You are what your ancestors ate. This is Paleolithic Nutrition talking.
Millions of years of evolution have shaped your needs for nutrients. You and your early ancestors share the same genes. Feed them well, and they do their job.
How out of sync is our modern diet with your genetic prehistoric requirements? Well, the less you eat like your ancestors, the more you’ll invite coronary heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and many of the other “diseases of civilization.”
On your next trip to the grocery store, consider a diet of the past. Go back to the drawing board. Or, back to the cave wall. Think like a hunter-gatherer.
Over billions of years, amino acids, lipids, vitamins, and minerals formed and helped construct the countless forms of life. In turn, these life forms became dependent on essentially the same group of nutrients.
99 percent of our genetic heritage dates from before our biological ancestors evolved into Homo sapiens about 40,000 years ago, and 99.99 percent of our genes were formed before the development of agriculture about 10,000 years ago.
All people were once hunter-gatherers. These people gathered various fruits and vegetables to eat, and they hunted animals for their meat. Due to a more sedentary lifestyle, we now go to the corner grocery store for chips and dip.
If you rely more on processed rather than fresh foods, consider that the vast majority of your genes are ancient in origin. Nearly all of our biochemistry and physiology are fine-tuned to conditions of life that existed before 10,000 years ago.
Take that back to the cave with you.
© 1996-2009 Mark Isaac Thyss/Garden of Healing®. All rights reserved.
For more articles about natural health and healing, please visit:
http://www.thegardenofhealing.com/
Prehistoric Nutrition
You are what your ancestors ate
By Mark Isaac Thyss
Garden of Healing®
How many people consider their dietary past?
You are what your ancestors ate. This is Paleolithic Nutrition talking.
Millions of years of evolution have shaped your needs for nutrients. You and your early ancestors share the same genes. Feed them well, and they do their job.
How out of sync is our modern diet with your genetic prehistoric requirements? Well, the less you eat like your ancestors, the more you’ll invite coronary heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and many of the other “diseases of civilization.”
On your next trip to the grocery store, consider a diet of the past. Go back to the drawing board. Or, back to the cave wall. Think like a hunter-gatherer.
Over billions of years, amino acids, lipids, vitamins, and minerals formed and helped construct the countless forms of life. In turn, these life forms became dependent on essentially the same group of nutrients.
99 percent of our genetic heritage dates from before our biological ancestors evolved into Homo sapiens about 40,000 years ago, and 99.99 percent of our genes were formed before the development of agriculture about 10,000 years ago.
All people were once hunter-gatherers. These people gathered various fruits and vegetables to eat, and they hunted animals for their meat. Due to a more sedentary lifestyle, we now go to the corner grocery store for chips and dip.
If you rely more on processed rather than fresh foods, consider that the vast majority of your genes are ancient in origin. Nearly all of our biochemistry and physiology are fine-tuned to conditions of life that existed before 10,000 years ago.
Take that back to the cave with you.
© 1996-2009 Mark Isaac Thyss/Garden of Healing®. All rights reserved.
For more articles about natural health and healing, please visit:
http://www.thegardenofhealing.com/
