Originally Posted by
carnivroar
Can you imagine telling a tiger to eat vegetables so it can live longer? A species thrives in the diet that it evolved on.
And you're ignoring the fact that cavemen didn't live long because of the harsh environment they lived in, not because of diet.
I am also of the opinion that if you absolutely must cook/process a food in order to digest it, then you were not designed to eat it. All grains fall into this category.
And, THAT is the major failing of the Paleo theory...
Humans did NOT evolve eating a single diet. We ate what was available -- whatever it was and wherever it was. The diet changed by season and by location. Most likely, the warmer it was, the higher the ratio of plant foods and, the colder it was the higher the ratio of animal products (aka "walking bags of protein")...
The human body evolved to eat and thrive on a wide variety of food stuffs. We never had the killer tools of a tiger nor the digestive system of an herbivore. We had a bit of both...
But today we have changed the equation the cavemen lived by...
Cavemen worried about making it through the day, the week or the month. But today, for those who have not yet succumbed to one of the chronic diseases, that is not much of a concern. But what IS a concern are things like:
-- weight
-- long term health and well being Particularly the chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, dementia, etc...)
-- energy levels for artificial athletic performances
The cavemen neither cared about nor thought about any of those things. So why would you use him as a model for today's diet? It is very simply faulty logic.