Can Eating Like an Ape Change Your Health in 12 Days?

re: Can Eating Like an Ape Change Your Health in 12 Days?

charmela — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:29:17 GMT

I'm sorry, but this is a stretch to me... let's go into the "caveman" days instead. An all fruits and vegetables diet is good for a short period of time (I do this myself occasionally), but the days before farming was invented the menu included a lot of meats, fish, and they also foraged for nuts and berries. I have studied enough archaeology to realize this premise (while it was fun in part) is flawed for a permanent diet.

re: Can Eating Like an Ape Change Your Health in 12 Days?

drbobsmate — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:50:35 GMT

I have been vegetarian for 36 years aged 62 and carry a 95k frame. I have no specific reason for being a vegetarian other than an "inner knowing" that I feel great! I have normal blood pressure and enjoy making love to my young wife every day!! (almost). I have rarely suffered colds or flu and believe that when I do, it is a serious pointer to other forms of ill health.(The basic understanding of Macrobiotics concepts prempt the consumption of yin (alkaline) vegtarian food and liquid over winter)of According to some eastern studies vegetarians are slow to anger and prefer a peaceful environment to maximise there generous nature. Dr George Oshawa predicted the wartime downfall of japan when their (mainly)vegetarian diet shifted to a western diet. I have always been impressed that gorrillas have the same length of intestines as humans!!

re: Can Eating Like an Ape Change Your Health in 12 Days?

J J — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:42:53 GMT

This was a very informative article. Although I have been acquainted with some people whom have acted like apes, I am not related to apes in any way, shape or form as the article referred to "our ape-like ancestors." When sayin this one should refrain from including the whole human race as related to apes and instead say "my ape-like ancestors", referring to themselves only, so as not to offend anyone else. Thanks for listening.

re: Can Eating Like an Ape Change Your Health in 12 Days?

todayschirodoc — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:58:00 GMT

After I burned over 3000Kcal before 10:00am Sunday, I read the article listed here.

I wondered how many people would read another "GREAT DIET INSIGHT" into how we humans are so fat...and think they need to eat whatever Kilos, of whatever food, for whatever days...to be like whatever we were....?

Well, I'm going outside now to play with my kids after my pizza, mmm sooo good. Maybe we will bike to the lake too, we do like to swim. They have great ice cream at the beach. I sure am glad we humans have "EVOLVED." Mostly because I don't have to kill a cow today, but I will eat a grilled Brat.

re: Can Eating Like an Ape Change Your Health in 12 Days?

seg — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:43:41 GMT

I've said it many times before and will say it again, we need to live as close to nature as possible, irregardless of who, or whatever any one says. Eating a diet of whole unprocessed foods in the right proportions according to YOUR nutritional needs is the ONLY WAY TO GO. Your body and also like in this study, your blood work will tell you...

I once read an article some ways ago where someone was stating that an elephant is so huge and strong and eats only vegetation, whilst a lion who mostly eats meat is strong also but nowhere as strong as the elephant - quite true ain't it.
Now imagine for a bit we fed the elephant the lion's diet what do you think will happed to the elephant, yes you guessed right, it will grow sick and eventually die.

Bottom line and my take here is we were "designed" (evolved) to live and eat certain foods and if we stray from this path then to we will eventually fall sick and die a premature death. So whatever works for you then by all means indulge, remember we are all unique and have different nutritional needs, so be it vegetarian, carb type, protein type, mixed etc, let your body be the judge- Islander you've seen the light.

Again live as close as possible to nature as we'll all be on the highway to optimum health and lets try to keep the negative points and negativity for outrageous posts etc, remember the enemy is out there not here....
Best to all....

re: Can Eating Like an Ape Change Your Health in 12 Days?

Peggy Sue — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:48:49 GMT

so, for those of you that DO eat carbs, what types of carbs do you eat? I have tried both ends of the scale (vegan, and high protein), and neither work for me. Vegan or vegetarian leaves me bloated and weak, and feeling like I "need something". High protein and no grain leaves me cranky and also very tired. I know I am combination, I eat good quality meat, and lots and lots of veggies with fruit (nice to have berries this time of year). But I need to add some grain or something starchy. Any suggestions as to how much and what type? I'm trying to add only 2-3 servings a day, and the best quality, whole grain, but any advice is appreciated.

re: Can Eating Like an Ape Change Your Health in 12 Days?

Bryan - oz4caster — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:25:28 GMT

While this diet may be a big improvement over the typical highly processed modern diet, I have to agree with Dr Mercola that this diet is not likely to work long-term for most people.

After all, apes are mostly vegetarian. Humans are omnivores.
Maybe that is why apes are still apes and didn't evolve larger brains : )

re: Can Eating Like an Ape Change Your Health in 12 Days?

Karl Bradley — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:52:43 GMT

Furthermore, a lot of the fruits and vegetables in this video are hybrid creations relatively new in the evolutionary scale. Were tomatoes, melons etc around in the neolithic times. Moreover, if you look at the apes in the evolutionary depictions on the video. There spin is bent over as we evolved the spines of the men become straighter. Do we all want to go around stooped over. The colour of the clothes that the "volunteers" are black with red stripes down the side. In colour analysis the black absorbs information and the red keeps it in the base chakra which is the lowest in terms of evolution. The food however, was in blue which is about clarity in the future. The scientists however, were wearing white which defies definitions. So peoples opinions can be moulded into anything with this. Did you notice also that some of the volunteers after all they were told about there blood pressure etc still opted for chicken and burgers. There must be something that the body needs in there substances. Also all the information about what we ate in the past is supposition. Plants and life were very different and what about the evidence for very advanced civilizations in the past. This video seems to be a truth sandwich with recent discoveries being relegated to the past. This is not the whole story. Did the apes need a scientist to tell them what is good for them or did they work it out for themselves. Seems humans have lost the ability to think for themselves

re: Can Eating Like an Ape Change Your Health in 12 Days?

mercorex — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:43:07 GMT

D Iridologist - I think it is entirely fair for you to make a case for not eating meat and I don't think anybody objects in that respect. However, if you start basing it on the physiology of animals you are likely to get a lot of debate! For example, cows have four stomachs to digest vegetation as do most ruminants. ( some have three) Humans have one. So, if you use a cow's teeth to argue similarity with humans, you are already going down a problematic path!

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jwags — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:36:36 GMT

Very amazing, but expected. I've been unable to lose weight this past year, and I truly beleive some of it is my "type." So I can't wait to take the new NT test when it becomes available.

John

re: Can Eating Like an Ape Change Your Health in 12 Days?

mercorex — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:18:00 GMT

As is so often the case, the question of causality is not really resolved. While the intent is good they lead the viewer to believing that it is purely the eating of the vegetables and fruits and not eating saturated fats that benefited the individuals. What about the fact that they eliminated grains? What about the fact that they consumed less calories and ate no processed foods? What about the fact that they used more energy chewing and processing all that vegetation?!!! I think the most useful lesson that can be attributed to a high level of causal probability is the fellow whose salt levels dropped. The cholesterol drop is I believe more complex and involves genes as well as diet. As Mercola says it largely depends on your metabolic type which I believe relates to your particular ancestry. Saturated fats from grass/range fed animals may well be beneficial to certain people as was shown by Weston Price. And if you do cook food saturated fats are more stable. i.e raw butter, coconut oil or fat from grass fed/ranged animals. Heck, people of Eskimo origin eat hardly any carbohydrates at all. The Swiss dairy farmers used to live entirely on cheese, milk and fermented dairy (all raw of course) with a little rye bread and beef once a week. They were supposedly extremely healthy. Sally Fallon of Weston Price has written some compelling articles on saturated fats and their place in our diets but unfortunately most people just assume that saturated=bad and look for alternatives rather than appreciating that the source of saturated fat coupled with your ancestry is more likely the important determining factor.

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Karl Bradley — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:01:03 GMT

I am not denying that a raw food diet benefits us tremendously. I eat a raw organic diet myself so I know the energetic implications. However, I think a big part of the puzzle is missing here. That is its symbolic implications. First it is in a Zoo which symbolises captivity. This is in Paignton which is a few miles down the road from where I live in the UK. Locally we joke about it being called Pain Town. So another symbolic implication keeping us in pain whilst in captivity. This zoo has been used symbolically many times before recently the Giraffe Pen was burnt down, Giraffe being symbolic of reaching up and seeing from a higher perspective. Apes are supposed to be our ancestors so again keeping us in the past, I have seen ape behaviour and its not something I really aspire too, neither is most human I might add. However, I think they were created from our genetics not the other way round so again a step back. If you look at them they have been eating this diet for many years and they have not evolved very far in human terms I not saying humans have evolved that far either. When you call someone a big ape it implies they are not very bright. Why did they not have the experiment in a beautiful open natural environment rather than the cage ritual site it is. . All this and and all the new advise for us to go back to being neolithic is to keep us in the dark ages trapped on this planet for as long as the controller want to keep us as a slave race. Or until we release our own prison mentality within ourselves
We are so much more than Apes. Not to put apes down.

Karl Greaves

Totnes

re: Can Eating Like an Ape Change Your Health in 12 Days?

denmar2 — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:01:46 GMT

Has anyone read Dr. Weston Price's book? He was a dentist who, in the early 1900s travelled all over the world to study diets of indigenous people before the introduction of the western diet laden with sugar and refined carbs. He did not find a single population of people thriving on a strictly vegetarian diet. All ate meat from one source or another. Anyone who has listened to Sally Fallon knows that saturated fat is healthy---it's the trans fats that are harming us. The "cis" formation (hydrogen ion placement on the same side of the carbon chain) of saturated fats is what makes them flexible and fluid-like. The hydrogen placement of transfats (opposed on the carbon chain) makes them rigid and less flexible, like plastic. Our cell membranes are formed from phospholipids. To function optimally and to maximize the passage of nutrients, cell membranes must be flexible and fluid-like. A (rigid) cell membrane comprised of trans fats limits the passage of nutrients into the cell and the passage of waste out of the cell.

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content2behome — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:37:16 GMT

O.K.-This diet would be much better than what the majority of people are on. But considering I never evolved from an ape, but my ancestory lies in Adam who had his fair share of meat, I don't believe this diet would completely work for me.

re: Can Eating Like an Ape Change Your Health in 12 Days?

Russ Bianchi — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:50:33 GMT

Maybe, only maybe, peeling an apple and consuming it per day will assist in keeping the doctor away, but don't bet on it.

Apples remain among the most pesticide laden and processed nutrient dumb downed fruits around in main stream supermarkets.