Rick Audette wrote:
>
> Grateful Dead's "Bear" sent me this, I pass it on to the group
> Ray sorry, I used the forward command but it didn't work. I got a
> netscape book, I just need to read it. Here's the letter from Bear:
>
> I was sent the following.  i would like to commend you on your stance
> against grains.  However you have it wrong about the human teeth.  We
> have the evolved form of an insectivore's tooth, still quite sharp until
> ground down by eating gritty veggies, as any kid who has bitten his
> tongue or cheek can testify. Our early diet had VERY little veg origin
> foods in it,only the women have a yen for carbs, which are the only
> thing the body can make fat stores from.
> All carbohydrate containing foods are a damaging unfluence on the human
> body (due to isulin), the most perfect bodies ever examined forensicly
> were stone age Eskimos, who had never eaten the first gram of carbs (or
> any veg,for that matter).  If you want the best possible health, I
> recommend you give up all foods except those of animal origin.  Of
> course you cannot easily do this, what you eat is what your mother
> taught you to eat and is burned deep into your conciousnes at a level
> few people can reach to modify.
> One of the most obvious indicators of insulin damage is the skin, which
> will lose its flexibility, develope stretch marks and go wrinkly, all as
> a result of insulin's damaging effects on the collagen.  The arteries
> develop muscular scars which are the precursors to CAD, dierctly from
> insulin's effects.  40 percent of humans suffer from diabetes, a disease
> unknown in omnivorous and herbivorous animals, and of course unknown in
> carnivores unless like pet cats and dogs they are fed carbohydrate
> foods.  Wake up, mate, the standard diet is killing us.  The body's own
> immune system can detect the damage from insulin and will destroy the
> Isle of Longerins, the insulin pruducing cells of the pancreas.  This is
> tho most usual cause of insulin-dependent diabetes, it is an immune
> system response to somatic damage!
>
> Health to you.
>
> I have an essay on some aspects of this at:
>
> http://www.crl.com/~zbear/essays.html#anchor496162