On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Norm Skrzypinski wrote:

> Atkins says that eating high protein, high fat, low carb is the ideal.

Atkins isn't the only one, of course.

> Can we have moved so far away from the way chimps live, in such a short
> time?

Short?  According to mainstream evolutionary theory, the most
recent common ancestor of humans and chimps lived about 7 million
years ago.

> Lamentably, many (most?) of us have moved so far away, but not because we
> have evolved ... because we have deteriorated to the point where we must
> rely on our secondary and tertiary sources of energy (fat and protein).  Our
> ability to use the primary source (carbs) has been corrupted.

What makes carbs primary?

Todd Moody
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