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Unleaded Conditioning Tip #27: Don't Be a Finicky Eater by Mark Hatmaker

 


Unleaded Conditioning Tip #27 [27 of 75] From the Dietary Principles Section.

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Man is an Omnivore aka “The No-Finicky Eaters” Rule

·        The dictionary supplies the following definition for Omnivorous: (of an animal or person) feeding on food of both plant and animal origin.

·        One of the many reasons this species has proliferated so easily upon the face of this planet is our astonishing adaptability.

·        Man can be found in deserts, upon shores, tropical regions, mountain canopy, steppes, plains, deserts, polar regions. You name a terrestrial environment and man wandered there and found food to consume.

·        If man were a niche eater, say only bamboo shoots, he would be found in only small clusters.

·        If he specialized to a mere one or two constituents of intake [carbs only, protein only, fat only etc.] again, we would find decreased population saturation and remove the omnivorous tag.

·        The “finicky eaters” among hominid kinds that did not survive, well, they did not survive.

·        The hardy, robust, explorers of land and palate did.

·        That is us.

·        But…we have turned our back on much of the omnivorous legacy that shaped this species for far longer than our current cultural quirks of the past hundred years or so.

·        Consider this from The Challenge of the Primitives-Robin Clarke & Geoffrey Hindley.

 

“The :Kung Bushmen were found to know and have named some two hundred different plant species and more than two hundred and twenty animal species. Of these, eighty-five plants were eaten together with fifty-four different types of animals. Anyone who believes that primitive nutrition rarely ventures outside two or three staple species might find it interesting to calculate how many different animal and vegetable species go to make up his own diet.”

·        Compare that wide variety of food type and source. Calories were high not just in protein as the muddled-“historians” of keto diets would have us assume.

·        Yes, protein consumption was high but…it was also high in carbohydrates and fat.

“During the same one month period, 18 game animals were killed which provided 454 pounds of edible meat. This, in turn, worked out at just over 9 ounces of uncooked meat per day per person which yielded about 35 grams of animal protein per person per day. This is, if anything, slightly more than the average amount of meat protein eaten per day by the average American. It is three times more than the average amount of all animal protein, including fish and eggs, eaten by people of the Third World at the present time. The overall results of the study show the average Bushman consuming 2,140 calories and 93.1 grams of protein a day. This protein figure is remarkably high and according to records is only exceeded by some half a dozen countries in the modern world.”

·        [The above follows an inventory of animal and plant foods (75 kinds of animal protein/50 plants/roots/fungus) consumed by various hunter-gatherers revealing that they, as a rule, eat far more variety than we do in our modern incarnation.

·        It also demonstrates a wide strata of the three obsessions of present day: protein, carbohydrates, and fats. Confining to a class or avoidance of a class is a pseudoscientific form of the finicky eater principle. 

[Below is an inventory of foods consumed by indigenous peoples made by George Grey in 1841 during an Australian desert expedition. The variety of this inventory is typical of many other contemporaneous inventories of hunter-gatherer peoples pre-civilized “infection.” The constant in these inventories is the observation that labor to obtain food is less than one would assume, we find no “typical” diet anywhere-ergo there is zero compelling argument to be made for “Our forebears were practically vegan,” or “Our forebears ate Paleo just like me.”]

Animal Foods

·        6 sorts of kangaroo

·        5 marsupials smaller than rabbits

·        2 species of opossums

·        9 species of marsupial rats, mice, and dingoes

·        1 type of whale

·        2 species of seal

·        Birds of every kind including emu and wild turkey

·        3 types of turtle

·        11 kinds of frog

·        7 types of iguanas

·        8 sorts of snake

·        Eggs of every species of bird and lizard

·        29 kinds of fish

·        All salt water shellfish except oysters

·        4 kinds of freshwater shellfish

·        4 kinds of grub

Plant Foods

·        29 kinds of root

·        4 kinds of fruit

·        2 species of cycad nuts

·        Seeds of several leguminous plants

·        2 kinds of mesembrianthemum

·        7 types of fungus

·        4 sorts of gum

·        2 kinds of manna

·        Flowers of several species of Banksia

“To a Western palate, most of the list above does not include ‘food’-we do not eat, nor probably could we force ourselves to do so, the eggs of lizards, the meat of marsupial mice or any kinds of grub, frog or snake. But that this is not a biological rule can be determined even within the confines of modern Europe. The French do indeed eat the legs of frogs and the meat of snails-not through necessity but as a result of gastronomic decision to regard such things as great delicacies. The Ifuago eat three species of dragon-fly, the powered flesh of locusts, crickets, flying ants, red ants, water bugs and many kinds of beetle. In what sense are their tastes for food to be judged less informed than our own (which incidentally include the limited consumption of ants coated at great expense in chocolate)? For us, milk is a staple food; yet in much of Asia it is regarded as a mucous discharge just about as attractive as the secretions from the nasal orifice.”

·        It is not just among the “Primitives” that we find this “Finicky Eater” hypothesis silly, we see our early physical culturists likewise disdaining the idolatry of this or that food or class of food.

·        The work, the training, the wise effort fueled by the omnivore is our legacy and our destiny.

·        As expressed by current in the know exercise science.

Keto has done more to kill gains than anything else. It made people afraid of carbs, and carbs are one of the most anabolic substances. It's not just about energy. Carb intake increases several factors that promote muscle growth (mTOR, IGF-1, insulin) and decrease cortisol, which is catabolic.

·        Catabolic means muscle killing. [BTW-Your heart is a muscle.]

·        We may indeed see results under a Finicky Eater regimen, but these are more likely in spite of the denial of an omnivorous approach.

·        The same effort required to overcome the Finicky Diet would reap larger rewards under a wider regimen.

·        For those who are not putting in herculean effort and using a Finicky Eater regimen, well, you wonder why this “magic diet” ain’t working?

·        It’s part of the problem.

·        Our goal as exploratory humans is to widen the palate, add variety to the plate, get rid of dietary juju and put all of this effort we currently put into thinking about diet, nutrition, and  supplementation into wise old school effort.

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