On Sun, 6 Sep 1998 22:46:20 -0400, Bill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Amadeus Schmidt wrote:
>
>>  think they were not designed for this kind of exercicse, from my
>> anchestors' fruitarian times.
>
>You say your ancestors were fruitairian very often.  On what do you base this?
I bases this on common scienticic assumption that more than about
2 million years ago primates were fruitatian.
This is for example mentioned in the Ward Nicholson interview.
This is a very long line of fruitatian developement of about 30 million years.
Only after this time stone tools slowly became avalable which
made it at first  *possible* to open (and then eat) an animals carcass.

I personally beleave, in this early time we got
our special fuitarian properties:
  - our ability to see colours
  - our dependance on Vitamin C
  - our dentition
  - our inability to detoxify Vitamin-A
  - our inability to use purins (DNA Material) as a nitrogen supply
  - ......

Although the times may be far away.. these were our anchestors for shure
whilst neanderthals and other hunting pre-humans which are often cited
as adaptions to diets rich in meat are probably not.

I do assume a *little* meat cunsumption in fruitarian times btw,
of about 2 %, and only in the form of small animals (normally insects).

regards

Amadeus