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Bruno:
>Raw and instinctive nutrition improves the mind and state of
>consciousness as much as it detoxes the body.
>Cooked food is not only the cause of health problems but also of the
>crazy modern nervous behaviours called wars, urban violence, rioting...
Perhaps that's a bit overstated, Bruno?
While I think cooked foods can be pretty problematic, I wouldn't go so far
as put the entire blame for wars upon them. There is plenty of evidence
that primates (both wild/raw and confined/denatured) exhibit violence that
seems excessive, and perhaps even appearing "modern" to some degree...
There are plenty of other co-factors in violence, not limited to
over-crowding, sexual jealousy, social injustice, etc etc--all which can
not properly be blamed on cooking.
Cheers,
Kirt
see:
DEMONIC MALES: APES AND THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN VIOLENCE
by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson.
Houghton Mifflin, 1996 ($22.95).
A worthy companion to Frans de Waal's "Good Natured" (reviewed in these
pages in September 1996), "Demonic Males" offers a probing inquiry into the
violent behavior etched into the nature of humans and
chimpanzees--especially males of the species. The authors lead the reader
on an intriguing tour through human history, primate studies and
anthropological reconstructions; they even offer lessons from the
peacemaking behavioral adaptations of bonobo chimps. The science is clearly
told, the writing literate throughout.
Kirt Nieft / Melisa Secola
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