Guest guest Posted May 20, 2002 Report Share Posted May 20, 2002 I posted a reply to Peter but it's hard to differentiate my comments from his. It was fine in my email reply but not on the website. I'll see if I can just post the comments in one section here instead. ***** Yes if you don't have access to fresh fruit you have to do whatever you can to survive. I suppose we were intended to live in tropical climates originally since we have no fur. Maybe in the past we were much more resistant to cold weather when we lived out in nature and ate our natural diets. I believe all the improper eating has made us quite weak. It may take 4 or 5 generations of eating raw to see what a real human is really capable of. From what I understand, early man was a tree dweller. Though I don't think, we could compete with chimps and monkees in their climbing prowess. Yes the carnivores have a much shorter digestion time. Otherwise the meat would putrify in the digestive track. Also they have much higher levels of hydrochloric acid in their stomachs to digest their food. They also have the enzyme Uricase to digest uric acid. This is something that humans don't have and which makes meat more of a toxin for us. I suppose not as meat in humans seems to take even days to digest. Because of our longer digestive track meat stays a long time in our bodies and putrefies. Mark commented in a previous post of some chimps eating meat. I've seen info on this and some species of chimp do hunt, but it isn't their staple food. In fact the chimps may have learned how to hunt by copying man or some other animal for that matter. They are very smart and their intelligence may be betraying them as well. As far as I understand there are only select groups of chimps that hunt, not all do this. Yes the carnivores have a much shorter digestion time. Otherwise the meat would putrify in the digestive track. Also they have much higher levels of hydrochloric acid in their stomachs to digest their food. They also have the enzyme Uricase to digest uric acid. This is something that humans don't have and which makes meat more of a toxin for us. I suppose not as meat in humans seems to take even days to digest. Because of our longer digestive track meat stays a long time in our bodies and putrefies. Mark commented in a previous post of some chimps eating meat. I've seen info on this and some species of chimp do hunt, but it isn't their staple food. In fact the chimps may have learned how to hunt by copying man or some other animal for that matter. They are very smart and their intelligence may be betraying them as well. As far as I understand there are only select groups of chimps that hunt, not all do this. It may also have to do with the convoluted shape of our intestines. This will slow down the elimination of foods. We have to have food in there quite a while to get the most nutrients out. Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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