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Old Sat, Feb-25-06, 07:47
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Originally Posted by foxgluvs
.....but cave dwellers lived on average 20 years, you were concidered positively OLD if you hit 25!!!! We live till we are in our 80's or 90's now.....do you not think that could be because we eat better more neutricious things than they did??!





Allow me to clear up this misconception by quoting Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades in their wonderful book, "Protein Power Lifeplan" (I've chopped it into shorter paragraphs for readability):
Another misconception is that prehistoric man usually died when he was twenty years old, so it didn't matter how much meat or fat he ate because he didn't live long enough to develop heart disease or any of the other disorders that meat and/or fat supposedly cause.

The twenty-year figure that is often used as the average age of death for prehistoric man is precisely that: the average age of death. That figure tells us nothing about the rate of aging or the maximum life span of prehistoric man.

A much more reliable figure that has been developed and used by those scientiests studying aging is the mortatily rate doubling time (MRDT), the time it takes for the mortality rate, i.e., the probabiliy of dying each year, to double. For example, if your probability of dying this year is arbitrarily set at one, and it takes eight years before your probability of dying is double what it is now, your MRDT is eight, which is about what it is in humans. Someone thirty years old, therefore, is twice as likely to die at age thirty-eight, four times as likely to die at age forty-six, and eight times as likely to die at age fifty-tow, and so on. The MRDT of mice is about three months; a fruit fly's about ten days.

Dr. Steven Austad from the University of Idaho has been able to determine that the MRDT of prehistoric man was about the same as ours. Prehistoric man had the capability to live as long as we do, he just didn't have as gentle an environment, so what we're comparing when we compre our average age at death to his is the relative hostility of our two environments.


Remember, prehistoric man did not have antibiotics or any knowledge of medical practices that we have today. Probably a good many died of broken bones and infection from wounds sustained in hunting.



All of the Eades' books provide a wealth of information regarding why veggies and grains are not necessary for human growth and nutritional health.

That said, just eating meat and fat today cannot be likened to prehistoric man's diet. They ate much more of the animal, not just the sirloin cut. They ate marrow, the innards, just about everything. We don't eat those things, and so miss out on many of the vitamins and nutrients.

Perhaps theBear eats more than just hamburger and sirloin. He's obviously doing something right if he's in such excellent shape.
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