Yes, I understand your point that it is not easy to even know what to eat if you're trying to eat more like what the humans that preceded you ate. But it is guaranteed that they didn't eat chemistry projects, they ate living things. I feel secure that eating live plants and animals is healthier than eating things that have been modified and packaged. And I do make the attempt to understand where MY people came from and what sort of lives they lived, because that gives me a clue what sort of fuel this body may run best on.
We are one of only a very few species that do not make our own vitamin C. It makes sense to me that we lost that metabolic pathway because we had good dietary sources of vitamin C. I can't vouch for the relative strength of blueberries/citrus vs BHAm but I know for sure that we did not evolve eating BHA. Also there probably are other metabolic effects from eating new synthetic substances that have not yet come to light.
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Re: soybean oil added to list
Date: 2008-06-25 12:11 am (UTC)We are one of only a very few species that do not make our own vitamin C. It makes sense to me that we lost that metabolic pathway because we had good dietary sources of vitamin C. I can't vouch for the relative strength of blueberries/citrus vs BHAm but I know for sure that we did not evolve eating BHA. Also there probably are other metabolic effects from eating new synthetic substances that have not yet come to light.