Ward Nicholson wrote:
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> - Finally, what would the evolutionary arguments for fasting be, beyond the
> obvious observation it would have been selected for to increase survival
> rates during famine? Is there any evolutionary explanation or mechanism
> that would account for the "rejuvenative" effect of fasting seen in many
> individuals that could explained by evolutionary processes?
>
> --Ward Nicholson <[log in to unmask]>


Do ever wild animals fast when there is enough food of the right
kind around?
If they are first fed with bread and cheese for a period ?
Maybe we should need a zoologist in the list!
As we humans inherits from "wild animals" we should function in
the same way.
But we have lost contact with our intuition and insticts
(our "ROM-ed" knowledge) and have to use mostly only learned
knowledge ("RAM"). Using your instinct for fasting would of
course not letting you know wy you are fasting, only just doing it.
According to the Anopsolgy ("instincto") book (wich you can reach
from the Paleodiet web-page) people who manage to guide their eating by
instinct do breif fasts now and then.
My wild guess is that wild animals occasionally change their diet to
suit special needs during sickness or so, but do not fast.

- Hans