Karl Mac Mc Kinnon wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 May 1997, Todd Moody wrote:
>
> > I sent this short reply and thought others might be interested.
> >         Animal fat is not the nutrition equivalent of fats
> >         derived from plants.  Audette's arguments that humans are
> >         innately meat eaters is contradicted by human dentition
> >         and the human digestive system, which are not those of
> >         carnivores.
> >
> > I'm not sure what "innately" means in this context.  Audetted
> > does not rely only on arguments from physiology but also on
> > evidence from paleoanthropology as to what paleolithic people did
> > in fact eat.  And he does not claim that humans were or are
> > exclusively carnivorous, but only that we have been omnivorous
> > for a long time, deriving a substantial portion of our food from
> > animal sources.  If you know of evidence that contradicts that,
> > I'd like to know about it.
>
>         All right, something the historian can answer.  If you look at
> the teeth in the skull of a pre-agrocultural human you will find teeth
> that are adapted to eat the five things that are listed as "do eats" in
> NeanderThin: meat, vegatables, fruits, nuts and berries.  When you look
> at humans who have used technology to eat grain, you find two problems
> with their dentation.  One is cracks from eating uncooked grain, which is
> much to hard for humans to chew.  (Try unpoper pocorn as an experement).
> The other is pits from bacteria which love to feast on the residue of
> mashed and heated grains.  The result in both cases is the same, a
> lifetime of constant pain.

Hmmmm,
I'm curious about ant discussion of diet based on tooth morphology.  I'm
an instructor at a chiropractic college and I'm frequently accosted by
students who disagree with paloediets that the true diet of humans is a
meatless, vegan diet.  These arguments are predicated on tooth
morphology.  To date, my best reply is, "Then explain the presence of my
rather large gall bladder."  My gut and particularly my large gall
bladder must be present to handle an expectedly large parcel of fat and
grease at any given time.

Any thoughts on the tooth versus gall bladder problem?
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