The human is a frugivore

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

 

Mother's milk is very sweet and is very resemblant of juiced fruit.

Infants, young children, adolescents, adults, and all other humans

desire succulent, sweet, flavourful, aromatic foods. Fruit is the

natural food that meets these criteria.

 

When establishing the normal, natural diet for the human species, one

needs to start with wider perspectives, more general observations (as

above), and then work out the details (such as the nutrient content

of the foods above).

 

When nutrient analysis or chemistry investigation is used as the

starting point, a person enters dangerous territory, and is liable to

not see the forest for the trees.

 

The point is that scientific investigation will only bring sensible

conclusions when it is carefully conducted, using the known to pry

more knowns from the unknowns for the purpose of deeper

understanding, working from the top down, not the bottom up.

 

In studying human behaviour, to use chemistry analysis as a starting

point in determining the dietary nature of the human species is to

use a magnifying glass to determine the operation of the solar

system. Larger principles and grander observations are required

first. Sensibly directd scientific investigation is careful to start

at the big and proceed to the small.

 

The reason that legitimate scientific investigation must do this is

because it is very easy to promote specious ideas backed by valid but

one-sided evidence, ideas that then propagate like wildfire.

 

A lie can go halfway around the world before the truth even gets its

boots on - Mark Twain

 

Examples of the wildfire misinformation effect are legion. For

starters, it took two thousand years to resolve the specious idea

(using very apparent evidence) that the earth was flat and at the

center of the solar system ( or universe), despite the truth being

known to a careful investigative few all along (the Greeks, Romans,

and Egyptians all knew the earth's diameter and its true relationship

to the sun)

 

Recent false promotions include the replacement of mother's breast

milk with infant formula. Tens of millions of babies (mostly in North

America) were denied breast feeding in the 50's to 70's (still today,

in fact) due to a " scientific " determination that used detailed but

biased nutritional anaylsis and fancy chemistry and biology

considerations to reveal formula as the perfect food for an infant's

diet and to sway the conclusions and actions of the populace.

 

A similar situation has occurred within the modern health movement.

The general observations and wider perspectives that show the true

desires and needs of an infant (and all humans later in life) are

consistent with a frugivorous diet (mainly fruit) are stampeded by a

specious idea supported by valid but one-sided evidence that fails to

reveal the big picture. The specious idea is that fruit is harmful to

the human, that the natural and normal diet of humans, today, is not

frugivorous, despite all the evidence that contradicts the specious

idea.

 

Valid scientific investigation, via biology, comparative anatomy,

physiology, psychology, history, and paleontology shows that the

human, today, is still a frugivore, like most primates, and is

evolved to be a frugivore.

 

I recall a situation in which a conventional-eating friend's three

kids (age 2, 3, and 5) were playing in their backyard while I was

doing work there, and for daily lunches I picked ripe plums, figs,

oranges, and persimmons from neglected trees in the backyard. The

kids all wanted the fruit, and clamoured around me to make me get it

for them as they saw me eat it (they were too short to reach the

hanging fruit). I was there for a few weeks doing work, and every day

the kids would excitedly anticipate my lunchtime activities and

persuade me to get them fruit, despite the mother's insistence that

they eat normal food (I had been admonished lightly by the mother, so

you can imagine the slightly difficult situation I was in). The

mother did not like it that the kids were ignoring their regular

lunch of cooked vegetables, a bit of salad, beans, artificial fruit

juices, and sandwiches; her mind was on ensuring her kids had an

adequate and nutritious diet, as any educated and concerned mother

would do (most people do not think of fruit as food, but merely as a

dessert that provides no nutrition). At other times at their home,

while eating breakfast or lunch, the kids were constantly wanting to

eat my grapes, blueberries, figs, and mangos despite their mother's

insistence that they eat their peas, carrots, salad, wieners, toast,

milk, and cookies (these were really what the kids were being fed).

The mother once said to me she wished her kids would eat the food she

prepared for them without so much fuss and delay, and as readily and

enjoyably as they ate my fruit. It would make her life easier, she

said. She, being a conventional eater who was completely sold on the

establishment view of nutrition and disease, was not aware of how

close to biological truth she had innocently wandered. She could not

see the forest for the trees, the truth yelling clearly and loudly

right in front of her face (and ears).

 

The modern health movement is swept up in using deep and detailed

chemical and biological analysis to make conclusions about a truly

simple subject, and uses one-sided evidence to establish error filled

conclusions and promote specious claims. The subject has been

complicated by modern civilization's lengthy practice of faulty

belief driven habits; underneath it all a simple biology persists.

The subject of concern is humankind's natural and normal dietetic

nature.

 

Humans are a frugivore. It is why mother's milk is sweet and

resemblant of natural fruit juice, youngsters can't keep away from

fruit, all humans have a " sweet tooth " , the less a child or person is

programmed to eat abnormal foods the more they desire fruit, fruit

provides all the water we need, humans have fingers and hands

perfectly and ideally suited for picking small things, humans love

trees and lush green, humans are attracted to bright colours, humans

enjoy juicy, textured, smooth, tasty, bouquet-like fragrant foods

(fruit is exactly this), human digestive abilities are relatively and

comparatively weak (ripe fruit is virtually all predigested

nutrients), humans are biologically suited for tree climbing and

walking, humans have no natural drinking apparatus, humans originate

in the warm tropics where fruit grows year round, and why humans

still enjoy surrounding themselves with gardens that replicate the

abundant vegetation of jungles.

 

For naysayers, it is left to explain why all of the above

observations are so, not to mention the thousands of other like but

unmentioned observations, and why these facts are of such a

consistent manner that is to be expected of a frugivorous species and

no other. These traits are exhibited by the many other frugivorous

species of nature (mainly primates, of which humans are one).

 

When investigators use sound principles of investigation and

observation, sound conclusions can be made. It is unsound to use a

microscope to derive conclusions that only normal eyes can see

clearly.

 

Robert

[Guest guest]

> Mother's milk is very sweet and is very resemblant of juiced fruit.

 

While I've never tasted human milk, I can say that I don't really see

much similarity between cattle or goat milk and fruit juice.

 

> Infants, young children, adolescents, adults, and all other humans

> desire succulent, sweet, flavourful, aromatic foods. Fruit is the

> natural food that meets these criteria.

 

The first statement above is accurate (though not precise), but the

second doesn't follow. Have you ever tasted the fruit of Low Oregon

Grape (Mahonia nervosa) or bitter cherry (Prunus emarginata)? Both

are an appealing color and are native here, yet taste so bitter as to

be basically inedible. Humans also desire salty and fatty/oily

foods. Psitticines love oils too, and if given the opportunity will

selectively eat only sunflower & safflower seeds because they're

oily. This is a very poor diet for a bird that should be eating

fruits and veggies.

 

> Recent false promotions include the replacement of mother's breast

> milk with infant formula. Tens of millions of babies (mostly in North

> America) were denied breast feeding in the 50's to 70's (still today,

> in fact) due to a " scientific " determination that used detailed but

> biased nutritional anaylsis and fancy chemistry and biology

> considerations to reveal formula as the perfect food for an infant's

> diet and to sway the conclusions and actions of the populace.

 

The Nestle/Carnation people assuredly are truly evil in this respect.