Flawed logic used throughout and goes from One extreme to another
The entire documentary is all built on flawed logic, flawed assumptions
and flawed conjectures.
basic gist is, since evolution and history says that for 99.9% of human
history we humans have been hunter gatherers, our diet should be like
that.
But that is a very flawed way of thinking. Just because our ancestors
were meat eaters doesn't mean meat is better than vegetables for us.
Our ancestors were not exactly optimizing their potential, just because
they were living like animals.
Evolution does not create perfect scenarios and perfect species of
perfect health, that is a fallacy this documentary is based on. It
assumes our ancestors were eating a diet, that they had perfectly
evolved into. Which is not the case.
While i agree with half the documentary (the half condemning modern
diet of processed foods), the other half of it is a load of pile of
false truths and false logics.
I present here some of these flaws the documentary ignores.
1) Our ancestors no doubt starved many months, many weeks, many days of
the year, through winter, when they could not find hunt food to the
point where many no doubt died. This documentary completely ignores
this fact when promoting this high meat diet theory.
2) Our ancestors also ate insects, larvae, and other unhealthy and
disgusting things, at no point do they start promoting a diet of
insects. Which again is another example of picking and choosing
history.
3) Our ancestors also didn't bath or clean themselves at all. No one
would say poor hygiene and living and eating like a wild dog is better
for us, just because our ancestors did it for millions of years. So why
use the same premise for dieting?
4) another example since our ancestors never exercised and only exerted
themselves when hunting, optimal health means we should not exercise
unless chasing a deer. Which they probably only did once a month for a
few minutes and only in large groups.
5) historically human societies have been fishermen rather than
hunters. This a fact the video ignores, as game food was not guaranteed
whist fish from the ocean or rivers largely was. Thus most
civilizations were situated on coastlines and near rivers.
Ultimately the point is, our ancestors did not have an optimal best
perfect diet, trying to mimic them is like trying to copy a C student
in an exam, you are not going to better a better grade.
This is the poor logic used in this DVD, which is flawed.
If you look at native aborigine populations in south America, Australia
who are following very much our ancestors diet, and look at the
athletes from the Olympics, anyone with half a brain can tell that the
athletes in the Olympics are healthier and better. Whilst the aborigine
population are sickly and poorly malformed, malnourished, etc.
Our ancestors also rarely lived beyond 40, average lifespan was
probably around in the late 30's. so evolution hasn't engineered the
paleo-primal diet to exactly keep our body ship shape beyond 40 (going
by their own logic).
So that's another flaw in using the logic of our ancestors diet is
evolutionary wise the best for us. Frankly documentary is a load of
baloney.
But they are right in that the paleo-primal diet is a million times
better than the modern processed sugar, salt, spices, oils artificial
chemical diet we have in the 21st century.
But they need to De-emphasise the meat intake, as our ancestors if
anything like normal hunter gatherers would most likely have not had
much meat in their diet as consistently as modern lifestyles or the
paleo-primal diet likes to infer. As you can't exactly catch and cook a
deer with a spear 3 times a day.
Even lions eat only once a week in the wild, sometimes once a month
periodically, and even starve when the herd migrates. As hunting eating
food isn't exactly on the dot, breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner time
like we have made nowadays.
Saying completely no to wheat is a fallacy as no doubt our ancestors
must have eaten wild grain, in order for them to become farmers of the
stuff. So it was part of their diet, which documentary ignores.
For those who want a healthy diet, its simple.
0) Eat LESS than 1/3 food, 1/3 water and leave AT LEAST 1/3rd of your
stomach empty when having any meal.
1) Eat 1-2 meals a day no more. Restricted calorie intake is normal for
humans and the human body is built on it. It falls apart if we overeat.
2) Fast one month a year where you do not eat drink sunrise to sunset, so
giving your body a detox, change up.
3) Fast a few days spread out of every month 5-15days where you do not
eat or drink sunrise to sunset, same reason.
4) Eat a diet high in water based products, in other words e.g. vegetables
mainly and natural fruits (not selectively bred factory farmed fruits),
this will make up 70-80% of your diet, with vegetables making up the
bulk of it.
5) then complement this with small portions of grain, meat
and very little dairy. Maybe 1 portion a week for meat (fish
preferably). 0.5 for dairy. 2 for grains (wholegrain like brown wheat).
That is if you want your organs to function beyond 50.
6) No alcohol, no benefit to body whatsoever, that cannot be achieved through other means.
7) Avoid sugar, Drastically avoid processed foods (only good
advice in documentary), avoid meat, avoid dairy, avoid sauces,
condiments, avoid selectively bred fruits with high sugar content etc.
This leaves you with the vegetables, natural fruits, nuts, and fish as
main meat in your diet. Which is a very good diet.
If you want to be a body builder obviously eat more carbs, meat and
dairy as a proportion of your diet well as 3-4 meals a day. but you'll
probably die around 60-70 with health problems.
Eating meat isn't going to solve your sinus problems, the guy is a fool
to suggest that correlation in the video. Avoiding dairy products most
likely will.
These truths (as i see them) are obvious to me.
All we have to do is look at the diets of east Asians like Japanese,
Chinese, Koreans in villages, compared to diets of people like Indians,
and westerners Americans in cities. Look at their health differences,
average life span, cancer rates, organ failures, diabetes, cancer etc.