Comments on: Keeping it Real: Food http://freetheanimal.com/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html Expressing Our Primal Genes for Lean Health, Vitality and Attractiveness Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:18:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Richard Nikoley http://freetheanimal.com/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-8935 Richard Nikoley Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:02:37 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-8935 Agreed. We're big lovers of it around here (you might search the blog <br>for 'saturated fat' to see just how much). Agreed. We're big lovers of it around here (you might search the blog
for 'saturated fat' to see just how much).

]]> By: Richard Nikoley http://freetheanimal.com/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-8934 Richard Nikoley Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:00:29 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-8934 I think the best one would incorporate some foods from all of them.<br><br>--<br>Richard Nikoley<br><a href="http://www.freetheanimal.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.freetheanimal.com</a><br>- Sent from my iPhone I think the best one would incorporate some foods from all of them.

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]]> By: JLL http://freetheanimal.com/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-8930 JLL Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:29:23 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-8930 I forgot to add that it seems that another common thing that appears in healthy, primitive diets is saturated fat consumption. Sure, some of the diets are low in fat, but I've yet to see people thriving on a diet with the fat portion consisting mostly of PUFAs. I forgot to add that it seems that another common thing that appears in healthy, primitive diets is saturated fat consumption. Sure, some of the diets are low in fat, but I've yet to see people thriving on a diet with the fat portion consisting mostly of PUFAs.

]]> By: jll http://freetheanimal.com/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-8929 jll Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:24:35 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-8929 It does seem that many of the diets of primitive peoples are, at the very least, superior to modern diets. Nonetheless, it would be fascinating to see direct comparisons between these diets: the Masai vs. the Inuit vs. the Kitavan vs. the Okinawan diet. All of them seem to be good, but I bet one of them is the best.<br><br>Furthermore, there are also primitive people who eat grain-based diets and are not very healthy. I forget the name of the tribe I'm thinking of, but as I recall, they lived near where the Masai live, and consumed a lot of carbs in the form of grains. Whereas the Masai are tall and thin, they were short and stodgy. <br><br>The one thing in common with all the healthy diets appears to be a very low intake of processed grains. I can't see how the elimination of those (wheat especially) could be anything but beneficial. It does seem that many of the diets of primitive peoples are, at the very least, superior to modern diets. Nonetheless, it would be fascinating to see direct comparisons between these diets: the Masai vs. the Inuit vs. the Kitavan vs. the Okinawan diet. All of them seem to be good, but I bet one of them is the best.

Furthermore, there are also primitive people who eat grain-based diets and are not very healthy. I forget the name of the tribe I'm thinking of, but as I recall, they lived near where the Masai live, and consumed a lot of carbs in the form of grains. Whereas the Masai are tall and thin, they were short and stodgy.

The one thing in common with all the healthy diets appears to be a very low intake of processed grains. I can't see how the elimination of those (wheat especially) could be anything but beneficial.

]]> By: sig http://freetheanimal.com/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-8669 sig Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:09:23 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-8669 to survive in times where there were no text books you would have to have great amounts of knowledge. Although survival is natural and what your trying to say is that any dumb idiot can fight for his life and survive. But you cannot deny that bringing up a family, feeding them, caring for them when they are sick and surviving for generations, without being told how, must take some brain power (and physical power). Some would say that it is only commonsense. But where scientific information, text books and authorities rule what is right and wrong these days commonsense has been neglected, even ridiculed (until proven) and what these primitive peoples had we have to call wisdom since we are so far removed from what they knew. to survive in times where there were no text books you would have to have great amounts of knowledge. Although survival is natural and what your trying to say is that any dumb idiot can fight for his life and survive. But you cannot deny that bringing up a family, feeding them, caring for them when they are sick and surviving for generations, without being told how, must take some brain power (and physical power). Some would say that it is only commonsense. But where scientific information, text books and authorities rule what is right and wrong these days commonsense has been neglected, even ridiculed (until proven) and what these primitive peoples had we have to call wisdom since we are so far removed from what they knew.

]]> By: Richard Nikoley http://freetheanimal.com/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-3413 Richard Nikoley Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:15:36 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-3413 <p>I'm not so sure, Dave.</p> <p>Are you so sure you could live entirely by your own devices out in the wild?</p> <p>And whatever it is, at least these small groups lived by their own means and authority. They had no authority but their own and survived anyway. Just like all human beings, they too can default on their responsibility to survive, and those are nitty gritty responsibilities, trivial for us, but then look at the result for so many people.</p> <p>If that's not is some sense wisdom, then I guess I'm at a loss for understanding what you think the term means.</p> I'm not so sure, Dave.

Are you so sure you could live entirely by your own devices out in the wild?

And whatever it is, at least these small groups lived by their own means and authority. They had no authority but their own and survived anyway. Just like all human beings, they too can default on their responsibility to survive, and those are nitty gritty responsibilities, trivial for us, but then look at the result for so many people.

If that's not is some sense wisdom, then I guess I'm at a loss for understanding what you think the term means.

]]> By: Dave http://freetheanimal.com/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-3412 Dave Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:04:32 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-3412 <p>It's not "ancient wisdom" that led primitive peoples to eat natural foods, it's that that was all they had.</p> <p>I'm not knocking the lesson, but your "What I want to do is benefit from their wisdom in a modern context" comment got on my nerves. No wisdom necessary, on their part.</p> It's not "ancient wisdom" that led primitive peoples to eat natural foods, it's that that was all they had.

I'm not knocking the lesson, but your "What I want to do is benefit from their wisdom in a modern context" comment got on my nerves. No wisdom necessary, on their part.

]]> By: Stephan http://freetheanimal.com/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-3411 Stephan Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:32:25 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-3411 <p>Richard,</p> <p>That's a great way to sum it up! I like your comment about not wanting to live like a HG but wanting to learn from them. Imagine what a good lifestyle and modern medicine (antibiotics, vaccines, surgery etc.) could do together!</p> <p>I wish more people would pay attention to this type of information. The fact that it's passed from the mainstream memory has crippled us. People are listening though. They know the standard approach isn't working. That's why they come to sites like ours.</p> Richard,

That's a great way to sum it up! I like your comment about not wanting to live like a HG but wanting to learn from them. Imagine what a good lifestyle and modern medicine (antibiotics, vaccines, surgery etc.) could do together!

I wish more people would pay attention to this type of information. The fact that it's passed from the mainstream memory has crippled us. People are listening though. They know the standard approach isn't working. That's why they come to sites like ours.

]]> By: Richard Nikoley http://freetheanimal.com/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-3410 Richard Nikoley Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:48:38 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-3410 <p>Bill:</p> <p>This was really designed for a general audience and not really people with specific issues, such as people not already severely insulin resistant. I believe you mentioned you're at 300 pounds, so, obese. Probably pretty resistant and so a very low carb would definitely be my approach in that case.</p> <p>And, for me, I'm pretty low carb anyway, as I love the meat and fat. However, the point is that if someone really prefers vegetables and starches, then at least that have the option of doing that with whole foods, then they can see if it keeps them in good health.</p> Bill:

This was really designed for a general audience and not really people with specific issues, such as people not already severely insulin resistant. I believe you mentioned you're at 300 pounds, so, obese. Probably pretty resistant and so a very low carb would definitely be my approach in that case.

And, for me, I'm pretty low carb anyway, as I love the meat and fat. However, the point is that if someone really prefers vegetables and starches, then at least that have the option of doing that with whole foods, then they can see if it keeps them in good health.

]]> By: Bill http://freetheanimal.com/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-3409 Bill Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:21:07 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2008/09/keeping-it-real-food.html#comment-3409 <p>So it's not that the atkins diet works by cutting carbs down to 20 grams a day, it's the real food you eat.Yes because there are some tribes that eat a fairly high carb diet but are lean and muscular correct?and not eating any prossesed food your health will return and lose weight,boy you really grabed my attention with this post.But what about the insulin factor?</p> <p> Bill</p> So it's not that the atkins diet works by cutting carbs down to 20 grams a day, it's the real food you eat.Yes because there are some tribes that eat a fairly high carb diet but are lean and muscular correct?and not eating any prossesed food your health will return and lose weight,boy you really grabed my attention with this post.But what about the insulin factor?

Bill

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