Many of the issues brought up here are addressed (I address them) in the book. Not to say that my addressing them carves them into even limestone, but the book can speak for itself and me, and I'd hate for somebody to hear "ketosis" or "diabetes" and assume that I'm wacky on either of those. I think entres No. 82-83-84 make a compelling argument for a nutrient-dense low-carb diet. One of those, summed up, goes like this: We have a digestive system nearly identical to the digestive system of every carnivore. It's a simple, one-stomach chamber system (monogastric). It lacks the enzymes and complexity needed to digest cellulose, the structural component of plants---which isn't to say we don't digest any of them, but we cannot digest cellulose without the enzyme cellulase, and we carnivores make at most just tiny amounts of that. Herbivores digest cellulose by fermenting it. In a ruminant (cow, deer), the first stomach chamber is the biggest, and its purpose is fermenting the roughage, breaking it down. Then it gets belched up and chewed again as a cud, mixed with more enzymes ...then is swallowed and sent through more machinery that we don't have, and after a long trip thru the large intestine, additional digestion by fermentation takes place in the cecum. Apes have a cecum, because they eat roughage and need it. Our appendix is a devolved/atrophied cecum. It's about as big around as a ball point pen or a fat pencil, and is two to six inches long, typically, and its chamber is narrow...and food can get in there, but sometimes doesn't get out, and then we get appendicitis or something else. The point is, over the nearly 3 million years of evolution, from ape to Homo whatever, a diet largely of heinous meat has allowed our digestive system to reconfigure to what it is now: Carnivoristic. It's so much like a dog's.
People've been eating plants in large quantities for at most 11,000 years. Middle easterners have the longest exposure to carbs, and as a defense, they've evolved saliva with a higher concentration of amylase in it, which predigests the starch before it triggers a huge glucose response. But carbs (in mass qty) came to Africans and Native Americans and Mexicans and some others much later, and they have not had time to adapt. It's not a white-and-black difference, though---the "high amylase" spit is still no match for the juices an processes an herbivore has to digest roughage. And even with all that roughage-digesting machinery, the digestion is so incomplete that they have to eat constantly to fuel themselves for even the most lazy lives (in the case of a cow). And they poop constantly, to make room for more food. They're digesting machines, but inefficient ones at that. A human on a high-fiber/plant-based diet is at a serious disadvantage. We've evolved the ability to communicate, but throw into that mix the influences of marketing and commerce and ego and all that, and it's no wonder we're confused. My book has no original thoughts, thank goodness. I didn't cogitate on stuff and make sense of it in my head before putting it on paper and declaring it truth. The information is out there and has been out there for decades. The past twenty years or so have taught us a lot more, and now the level of understanding how it works is quite high. There are ethical arguments on both sides, and I address some of those, too. Maybe all of them. But for me, it comes down to this: People and the animals fed by people are the only animals on earth that eat food that is incompatible with their digestive system. Many, not all, of the problems we have are nearly unique to people, and some of those problems might be related to eating funky food. In the book I try to simplify things. Since I'm simple - minded, it came natural to me. At eatbacondontjog.com I show fantastic food fotos of some actual meals. Many contain leaves...even though I don't thoroughly digest them. On that site you'll also see we have an anagram contest going. Scroll down a few posts. Kind of fun. eatbacondontjog.com G On Friday, November 7, 2014 2:37:06 PM UTC-8, Eric Norris wrote: > > Hmmmm. I will have to ask my dentist next time I see her if cavities can, > in fact, “vanish.” That would be wonderful. > > —Eric > > > On Nov 7, 2014, at 2:08 PM, Deacon Patrick <lamon...@mac.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Some cavities even vanished. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
