Zachs
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Tarmander said:post 117100 Sure, most long lived, tribal peoples ate a very consistent diet, and many sick Americans eat something different every night of the week. However a big part of that consistent diet was the fact that freshness could not be maintained for very long. Yet in "civilization," you can get a frozen Indian dinner, a frozen Italian dinner, and a frozen Mexican dinner that will sit in your freezer for six months and come out right as rain.
I think the freshness made more of a difference then the consistency. I actually find eating something occasionally different, as long as it is fresh, makes me feel better. It just doesn't make sense to me that if someone living in Asia on Rice all of a sudden moved to Africa and lived on Milk would have their health tank. Sure maybe there is an adjustment period, but in my mind the freshness in both diets would be the important factor.
One of my thoughts on that subject is that a really varied diet calls for a varied gut biome. We're as a simple diet of one main starch allows a few bacteria to become dominate. In the first instance, a varied biome would allow competition from bad bacteria, on a simple diet, the dominate strains could keep bacteria in check. Just an idea.
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