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| Author | Topic: are we really omnivores? |
| Auron 01-14-2003 05:45 PM | omnivores are usually classified by a shorter intestine among other things wouldn't we be considered more frugivores? |
| mengyao 01-15-2003 02:45 PM | i personally believe we are more frugivores than anything else. i also believe we ate SOME vegetables. but our main diet was probably fruits. i dont think we are omnivores, if u talking meat. maybe we ate the occasional caught fish, insects, eggs, but nothing bigger than that like cows, chickens, etc. but we could have survived without meat, since b12 would be growing on the fruits we ate. |
| Wai 01-15-2003 04:00 PM | findings of remainders from 1.6 million years ago, showed that our ancestors that already were over 8 feet tall, also ate fish (raw), which makes us omnivores. but yes, our main foods are fruits... B12 is only produced by specific bacteria, and it is very much a question whether those specific bacteria were present at fruits... |
| Auron 01-15-2003 05:13 PM | how did these people get so tall that's huge did they eat raw fish or did they cook their food or is there anyway to know? |
| Auron 01-15-2003 05:18 PM | another question did our ancestors eat raw eggs, and what stunts growth the most too much protein?What are the most worst foods that will prevent from growing, and what are the foods that make us grow the most? |
| Wai 01-16-2003 07:48 AM | quote:The 2 basic conditions for optimal growth are: - sufficient building blocks (protein, cholesterol, fatt acids) - sufficient energy to build more cells (sugars and fats) So, a diet that supplies us with sufficient of all nutrients, and a diet that takes the least energy for digestion (digestion takes energy from your cell building potential), is the best for optimum growth. this means a diet containing foods that are easy to digest (no grains, beans, tubers, veggies), and high in calories (sugars, fat) and protein (like fish). That is why man in more recent history (closely bc and ac, and up to about 1950) was far smaller (check out this webpage); in this time period we ate lots of grains, beans and tubers. quote:the ability to create / handle fire, was not developed until much later (fire 'was discovered' much later), so there is no way they could have cooked their food quote:we don't know, but it seems very likely quote:Foods that are hard to digest: beans, grains, tubers, veggies quote:foods that are easy to digest AND high caloric: fresh raw animal foods and sugary or fatty fruits |