On Fri, 12 May 2000 05:36:26 -0700, Julie Kangas <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>On Fri, 12 May 2000, Amadeus Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Opposed to this, i feel that meats are more of an emergency food for
>> deserted areas and well suited only for specialists (predators).
>> Somehow a lion is more a mortician than a king.
>
>Not so. Meat is a highly efficient source of energy,
>so much so that carnivores eat only occasionally and
>have a short, simple digestive track which produces
>little waste.
Julie, meat is a superb source of protein (and you need that to compensate
for isolated carbohydrates).
But look how meat averages in terms of energy (Calories)
between a simple fruit, a root and a nut.
Nutri Food 1 Food 2 Food 3 Food 4
-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------
Calories 26.08 29.77 172.08 34.02
Pro (g) 0.28 0.48 6.92 6.52
Carb (g) 6.63 6.89 3.43 0
Fiber (g) 0.68 0.85 1.42 0
Try to find out which one is the meat, without lurking ...
its:
Food 1-BANANA-RAW (09040)-1:1 oz
Food 2-SWEETPOTATO-RAW (11507)-1:1 oz
Food 3-WALNUT-BLACK-DRIED (12154)-1:1 oz
Food 4-DEER- RAW (17164)-1:1 oz
In addition, consider that it doesn't contain carbohydrate, which is
mandatory to fuel the brain.
However annother question is how easy is was early humans to have
access to such items. Fruit diminished. Roots (and onions) became
available (throug sticks as tools).
Nuts seasonally plenty (available with stones and hands).
Meats may have been plenty as carrion or after invention of
a successful new hunting technique.
However successfull new hunting techniques tend to totally wipe out
a prey population after some time.
> Herbivores, however, eat almost
>continuously and must move large distances to find
>food ...
Meat is quickly digested, leaving no bulk.
This is more a disadvantage as an advantage in
humans. Catchword constipation.
That all would best portray humans as tree seed specialists.
Then the article "Fossil Signs of First Human Migration Are Found"
cites:
> "With the appearance of Homo, we see bigger bodies that require more
energy to run, and therefore need these higher quality sources of protein
as fuel," Dr. Anton said of the adaptation to meat-rich diets.
Where is the the runner eating only meat, without much fat or carbohydrate?
Where is the energy found? Don't they know the basics?
On the other hand, intringuing:
> "Herbivores are restricted to where the plants are that they eat," Dr.
>Walker said. "Carnivores are not so restricted. Meat is meat, and you
>often have to travel far to find it."
IMO an interesting idea.
Human societies exploited *every* source of food found. Plants of every
kind, also animals of every kind. Plants, fruits, nuts are seasonal
(out of the tropics). Animals may be seasonal too.
I think humans exactely are the versatile kind, capable to cope with
the broadest range of food. Even very much expanded by cooking.
Debby read it too and wrote:
>important phrase for us:
> They believe anthropologists will have to look for other
> explanations for the move.
> "It could have been for biological reasons," David Lordkipanidze
> said. "Humans became carnivores and they wanted to expand their
> range."
Debbie don't forget, especially *if* he is reasoning or assuming
right: this are a different species of "humans". They died out.
I don't plan to die out in the next time, if possible.
maybe this is also an important phrase for us?
cit:
"The line that these people gave rise to may
have died out as recently as 50,000 years ago
in the Far East," he told the BBC. "So it was a
long-lived and successful line, but in my view a
dead-end.
and
>Scientists said the discovery left unchanged current interpretations of the
>origin of anatomically modern humans in Africa some 100,000 years ago.
have a nice and healthy weekend
Amadeus
retiring
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