Fasting

[Wiglaf]

Paleolithic humans were lucky to live into their 30s. You have got to be kidding me. The body can, in most cases, sustain the bizarre diet you have at the expense of muscle tissue, endurance, potential damage to your gastrointestinal tract, nutrient malabsorption, impaired liver function, anemia, kidney stones and hypoglycemia.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Blake


I only eat between dawn and noon, so I almost fast every day. It's actually very nice, but highly difficult to do with an untrained mind. I tried once before and absolutely couldn't, I went mad with hunger, but after a bit more Buddhist practise I could easily fast for 20 hours without a tinge of discomfort. It's now more a matter of "Why not?" rather than "why?". I have more energy and time by eating less.

Most of my very unhealthy freinds, and myself when I didn't eat as healthy as now, ate only 1 meal per day.

There is nothing special about doing this.

JM

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Jon Miller


Most of my very unhealthy freinds, and myself when I didn't eat as healthy as now, ate only 1 meal per day.

There is nothing special about doing this.

JM

From what I was reading today you can prepare your body for fasting this way. That way you don't poor a bunch of toxins into your blood stream that your body can't handle.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Eggs

Protein, choline, vitamins, truly a super-food

Dairy, too.

Now I'm hungry, time for a 4-egg cheese omelette :yum:

Kid, this concept of "detoxification" is BS. Teh liver does a good job of clearing out toxins; you don't need to do anything special to get rid of non-existent "accumulated toxins." Focus on consuming less toxins in teh first place.

[Jon Miller]

It lowers your metabolism and you often end up storing food because you stlil consume a lot of categories but you can't use them all at once. So also you are mor etired at later portions of the day.

For max metabolism and growth, comsuing 4-6 meals per day is recommended.

JM

[GePap]

Originally posted by Wiglaf
Paleolithic humans were lucky to live into their 30s. You have got to be kidding me. The body can, in most cases, sustain the bizarre diet you have at the expense of muscle tissue, endurance, potential damage to your gastrointestinal tract, nutrient malabsorption, impaired liver function, anemia, kidney stones and hypoglycemia.

Human beings have always regularly made it to 50 years old or more: otherwise things such as menopause in women would never have evolved. People need to differentiate between average life expectancy (when you have 50% or more of kids not living to 5, it will obviously be low) and what lives humans can reach. Also, Paleolithich humans lived a little longer than early agriculturalists, since the agriculturalists diet was so nutrient poor.

We have a good idea of what humans naturally eat, and their diets are almost always one based around plants with a small amount of animal protein thrown in here and there.

[DaShi]

Like the eskimos.

[GePap]

Originally posted by DaShi
Like the eskimos.

Eskimos lifestyles are hardly man in his natural state. It takes a lot of technology to live full time in a environment so hostile.

[DaShi]

Replicators

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by GePap
Eskimos lifestyles are hardly man in his natural state.

Especially not women eskimos

[Thoth]

Harpoons
Sealing clubs
Igloos

[DaShi]

Hey! I'm gepaping Gepap!

[Wiglaf]

Originally posted by GePap


Human beings have always regularly made it to 50 years old or more

What??http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy

My statement is that you're lucky to get to 30 if you're in the paleolithic, and it's demonstrably true. Get off whatever dope you are on.

[Blake]

Originally posted by Jon Miller


Most of my very unhealthy freinds, and myself when I didn't eat as healthy as now, ate only 1 meal per day.

There is nothing special about doing this.

JM

You're quite right. And I actually used to sometimes eat only one meal a day, or even fast for a day or two.

But it's important to recognize; that I felt really quite bad at those times. Like, I just couldn't be bothered eating, or I was too distracted by video games...

It wasn't an eating routine - it was a lack of routine.

It was terrible.

Once I started living the wholesome life and not remaining in a state of perpetual distraction and suppression, I had to start getting along with hunger and dietary requirements in a responsible way.

That was with three square meals, until I learned to overcome non-useful hunger.
Basically there are two types of hunger.
The first, is "The body requires calories and nutrients, please put food in hole"
The second, is "I feel bad. You must put food in the hole! That always make me feel better!"

I still have the first type of hunger, which is comparable to the urge to pee, there's nothing wrong with it.
I'm virtually free of the second kind of hunger.

In large part, because I simply feel really good virtually all of the time .

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by GePap
Also, Paleolithich humans lived a little longer than early agriculturalists, since the agriculturalists diet was so nutrient poor.

And also because they sometimes went without food which strengthened their systems.