"Eat your rye bread, kids, it's evolution food!"Turns out that starch is the real 'fuel of human evolution', not red meat. Of course we can now expect that whore Sam Neill to be spruiking for the potato farming industry and renouncing his crappy ads for red meat (which I eat occasionally, but the ads are objectionably stupid). Right, Sam?
EvilWombatQueen already beat me to it and posted on this- she has the YouTube of the Sam Neill advert.
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so, you're pro smoking now?
Those ads shit me up the wall. The idea that eating meat is "essential", or somehow makes you smarter. What a misleading series of ads.
All very well, but we were genetically modern humans before we started cooking with fire (around 40,000 years ago), so being able to eat starchy veg didn't really contribute to our evolution at all, although it did contribute to our being able to become farmers rather than hunter gatherers, and thus start destroying the planet instead of living in harmony with it.
And modern hunter-gatherers are clearly not eating the same diet as the hunter-gatherers in the ice age during which we became modern humans - which was closer to a traditional Inuit diet - which is all meat/fish.
And eating meat might not make you smarter, but children need chloresterol and B12 for their brain development, and not getting those things can definitely make them stupider.
i don't know about that rebekka. wear patterns and the dentition of most ancient hominids point to more plant than meat diet.
Rebekka- dairy products are rich in B12 and cholesterol. Red meat is really only useful for its highly bioavailable iron- everything else you can get quite easily from other foods.
Plus, we were genetically modern humans, but I think you'll find the biggest increase in human brain size coincidentally happened around 30 000-40 000 years ago...
Oh and I just wanted to clarify- the human body manufactures all the cholesterol it needs, so it is not a required as a nutrient for either children or adults :)
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