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Tue, Dec-11-18 09:21 |
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They said: “The idea that you only eat what your ancestors did is fundamentally flawed. If you fail to look into your genealogy for thousands of years, how do you know if they were in a region where avocados even grew?
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Unless you have some Native Central or South American ancestry, the question doesn't really come up. Most Mexicans have native mitochondria, so that's a clue.
But are avocados a particularly suspect food? If you're concerned about things like lectins and nightshades, then maybe all plants are suspect. But the highest level of suspicion for problems with the modern diet, for most people, I'd suggest lies with excessive grain, sugars, and possible corn oil, foods that are both starchy and fatty, etc. Add a bunch of sugary fruit to the traditional Inuit diet, and that's a more obvious challenge to a metabolism that's adapted to a largely protein and fat diet than avocadoes or macadamia nuts would be.
There's eating what your ancestors ate, then there's eating what somebody's ancestors successfully ate, instead of a modern diet that most people do poorly on. |
