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
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The dictionary supplies the following definition for Omnivorous:
(of an animal or person) feeding on food of
both plant and animal origin.
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One of the many reasons this species has proliferated
so easily upon the face of this planet is our astonishing adaptability.
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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.
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If man were a niche eater, say only bamboo
shoots, he would be found in only small clusters.
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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.
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The “finicky eaters” among hominid kinds that
did not survive, well, they did not survive.
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The hardy, robust, explorers of land and palate
did.
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That is us.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.”
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[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
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6 sorts of
kangaroo
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5 marsupials
smaller than rabbits
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2 species of
opossums
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9 species of
marsupial rats, mice, and dingoes
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1 type of whale
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2 species of
seal
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Birds of every
kind including emu and wild turkey
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3 types of
turtle
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11 kinds of frog
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7 types of
iguanas
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8 sorts of snake
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Eggs of every
species of bird and lizard
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29 kinds of fish
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All salt water
shellfish except oysters
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4 kinds of
freshwater shellfish
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4 kinds of grub
Plant Foods
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29 kinds of root
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4 kinds of fruit
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2 species of
cycad nuts
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Seeds of several
leguminous plants
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2 kinds of mesembrianthemum
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7 types of
fungus
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4 sorts of gum
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2 kinds of manna
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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.”
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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.
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The work, the
training, the wise effort fueled by the omnivore is our legacy and our destiny.
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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.]
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We may indeed
see results under a Finicky Eater regimen, but these are more likely in spite
of the denial of an omnivorous approach.
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The same effort required
to overcome the Finicky Diet would reap larger rewards under a wider regimen.
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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.
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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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