Diets Of The Greats

nwo2012

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Wait - let me guess- the holocaust never happened?

Hmm, where did I say that exactly?

Back to the topic, Im guess the OP was not implying that all the great thinkers or influential figures were necessarily Peating, more he was curious to know what they ate, or at least what they are said to have eaten.
 
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Back to the topic, Im guess the OP was not implying that all the great thinkers or influential figures were necessarily Peating, more he was curious to know what they ate, or at least what they are said to have eaten.

Yes, the thread was created out of curiosity and to find some commonalities (a simple diet consisting of nutrient-dense animal-foods and staple carbohydrate sources).
 

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Depends what you mean by greats. If you mean historical figures, we could look at Hitler's diet for warnings and ominous parallels:

An obviously Nazi (authoritarian) trait was his love of PUFAs: linseed oil was used liberally. He liked lentils in the form of pea soup, though had to limit it as it gave him digestive troubles. Peppermint tea was a favourite during late night military strategy sessions.

On the other hand, he did avoid estrogenic substances like alcohol, muscle meat and tobacco smoke.

Hitler ate Peat-approved foods like cheese, mashed potatoes, and starches (albeit mainly pasta, noodles and rice). He liked coffee, and marmalade (though he did have it with bread). Ice cream was enjoyed by the Fuhrer, along with chocolate and in his final months in the bunker he ate a lot of stress-relieving sugar(in the form of cake).

His cook also secretly added gelatin to his diet, despite his avowed vegetarianism. There are claims that he ate shellfish as well.

So overall it seems we have a mixed bag. On the one hand, he ate polyunsaturated oil before it was even popular, as well as gluten, starch, and legumes.

On the other, we see dairy plus sugar plus caffeine and an avoidance of tryptophan. I don't know his calcium to phosphate ratio but I imagine it wasn't ideal. Perhaps this explains his hateful, vengeance-based ideology alongside the strategic luck and hypnotic power he displayed win the early years of the war.

The stress-based (adrenaline?) energy Hitler displayed sounds uncannily like that observed in high-serotonin individuals, especially those on SSRIs who suddenly find the confidence and motivation to commit mass-murders. Some members have claimed they feel more motivated on a high-serotonin diet.

That happens to you when you become brainwashed by religious ideas. He used the Vedas and misinterpreted it.
 

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I doubt any particular diet is much better for individual "greatness" as long as it's digestible, contains all necessary nutrients and low in toxins. I think the only reason high starch is associated with advanced civilizations is that it allows higher population density and the need for fewer people to be involved in food production so there can be enough leisure for many people to be fully devoted to intellectual pursuits. I doubt pre agricultural humans were less intelligent, probably in some ways more intelligent as long as nutrient and calorie supply was high throughout the lifespan.

Agricultural societies tend to develop mineral deficiencies eventually as soil quality is depleted, and for the masses sometimes leads to protein deficiency as well. I'd expect the most robust, productive societies and individuals have a diet that is a fairly even mix of carbs, fats and protein and are mineral rich. But "greatness" is probably more a product of a childhood with a good balance of free exploration and mentorship by masters of knowledge and skill.
 
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I doubt any particular diet is much better for individual "greatness" as long as it's digestible, contains all necessary nutrients and low in toxins.

I'd expect the most robust, productive societies and individuals have a diet that is a fairly even mix of carbs, fats and protein and are mineral rich. But "greatness" is probably more a product of a childhood with a good balance of free exploration and mentorship by masters of knowledge and skill.

I agree!
 

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Idi Amin reportedly ate as many as 40 oranges a day, believing they were "nature's Viagra."
 

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wait, let me guess . . . there is no santa claus?

I hope you're not suggesting a holy hoax?!?

Hey, there is too. Santa's greatness comes from a diet high in dairy, sugar, starch and carrots. Lots of cacao too in the choc-chip cookies.
 
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"U.G. uses heavy cream, the thicker the better, another important element in his diet, in many recipes, and drinks it with sugar and a dash of coffee (“for flavor”) once or twice a day. He is not concerned with cholesterol or any other disorder. He may consume over a pint of heavy cream a day."
 

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That's a good point but why put it in opposition to the argument of the drastic increase in carbs consumption contributing ? Both probably contributed. I don't know any genius who spent most of his life on a low carbs diet. Carbs intake basically cured what was functional hypothyroidism for all past history, with metabolism correlating to intelligence it could have been the crucial primer (even in the absence of food scarcity) to get people interested in higher thinking rather than only satisfying primitive urges. Do you think history would have been the same if all these people were able to live together and be fed the meat-heavy low carbs diet ?
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