oxidation_is_normal
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Westside PUFAs said:jyb said:What other models do we have to turn to for intuition? I usually think of dairy tribes and some European countries.
Do we really need models for intuition? That's a very vague statement. Almost all other cultures did not use dairy the way certain Euros did so there are more examples of "intuition" without dairy. I personally like dairy used in the right way for me so I'm not anti-dairy. The problem is that thinking about intuition when it comes to human food is pointless simply because there are only two sources of food; certain edible parts of plants and certain edible parts of animals. There's nothing to think about. Plants and animals. If there were 10 other elements that were human food, and disease was mostly a mystery, then I would agree that we need to look for intuition, but since there's only two elements of food I think there's nothing to think about. You can eat the "meat" of a fruit but you can't eat the seeds, meaning that your gut can't break them down and get nutrients from them. It's clear what part of the fruit is real food. Sure, certain seed such as sesame can be ground up and made into tahini but theres probably a reason why mixing it with chickpeas to make hummus is the most widely used version. You can eat the meat and organs of an animal but you can't eat the bones. You can crack them open and eat the marrow but you can't eat the actual bone. You can eat shellfish but you can't eat the shell. You can eat eggs but you can't eat the shell without a coffee grinder and even then eggshell powder is not an energy source, its a calcium supplement. In the wild there are plants and animals. You can't eat rocks, you can't eat bark, you can't drink sea water because you'll die. Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking seawater, you have to urinate more water than you drank. Eventually, you die of dehydration even as you become thirstier. Even with cooking and processing, there is still only a very limited number of what is human food, even at present and far gone from the wild.
Animals like us operate off of intuition; it's something that needs to be accounted for, and even harnessed for its power. It's been the driving hunger - literally - in our feeding patterns since the beginning. Dogs eat grass when they have worms out of intuition... And what is this about the only being two elements of food? That sounds like alchemy. You said something about not eating seeds, and then you used coffee as an example - the seed of a coffee plant! We "changed our intuition" to drink coffee now that creating it is a common procedure.