Just for the record, I don't doubt the word of those who *have* benefited from the so-called Primal diet. It just seems that there is overwhelming evidence that it isn't necessary for very many people.
Peter and Patrick bring up and interesting point, that there may be more going on with food ailments than can be adequately analyzed merely in terms of calories, proteins, fats, and carbs -- that is, that there may well be social and psychological aspects to ailments often attributed to diet alone. I do know that, in traditional Chinese medicine -- and I expect that it is found elsewhere -- it is not only the "content" of the food that affects one's health (ie, the amount of commonly analyzed nutrients, fats, protein, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins and so forth) but also how it is cooked, how it is grown, how it is stored and how it is served. So there may well be intangibles (at least, "intangible" to us descendants of the Enlightenment and its scientific successor) that affect how the same food can affect people in very different ways. That in itself would not be surprising, since there is obviously something in living beings, at least sentient living beings, that directs the body -- which is why sadness, for example, or stress, can kill a person or at least make him ill. Reductio corpus ad animam! At any rate, there is at least a minority who certainly does thrive on a diet made very largely of animal products; long before the Primals there were the Inuit who survived thus for millennia. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Peter Morgano <uscpeter11...@gmail.com>wrote: > Patrick is right, food and calories in general are an economy of scale, > where small decisions can add up to something huge down the road, whether > for the better or worse. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
