I once had some chats with my now-deceased father, at various times, who told me how he would go in for various blue-collar jobs, in his youth, involving lifting great weights throughout the day(an example being jobs at railway-stations lifting heavy weights constantly). He would point out how incredibly strong and fit(and slim) his older mentors became after doing those jobs for years. Unfortunately, as he acknowledged, very few jobs, if any,  nowadays involved that kind of activity, and very few sports(whether play or anything else) required the necessary activity needed to get rid of obesity or whatever.


In short, given the now abundant food-supply available, and the sheer lack of opprtunity to do the kind of exercise hunter-gatherers carried out every day, it is becoming ever more difficult to stay slim while on a cooked-food diet of any kind.

Re grains comment on other post:- It isn't merely a question of grains. Rawists who turn to rawpalaeo diets after coming from cooked palaeo diets still report some weight-loss. And, in my own case, I lost something like 5 kg after giving up dairy(raw or otherwise) and lost another 15-20kg after giving up all cooked foods. I was c.110 kg on a SAD-diet including dairy along with a massive potbelly etc., and ended up between 85 to 90kg on a rawpalaeodiet.

Geoff








> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:29:20 -0500
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: How fire made us human
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:25:19 -0500, Geoffrey Purcell  
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Now, I'll grant that constant high activity levels can reduce weight  
> > etc., but this is only easily achievable in tribal cultures like in  
> > Palaeo times, where daily activity levels were high enough to counter  
> > any weight-gaining effect of cooked-foods.
> 
> Our modern culture makes it hard to get physical activity unless you just  
> want to.  But if you want to, there are plenty of opportunities for  
> physical activity, even without "exercise".  Walk the last couple of miles  
> to work.  Take the stairs instead of the elevator.  Don't use power  
> tools.  Find something to do besides watch TV (preferably outdoors).   
> Play.  (That last one is an easy, fun, and cheap way to get some good  
> physical activity, but so few adults do it.)
> 
> --
>    Robert Kesterson
>    [log in to unmask]

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