As stated perfectly in 1995 in the journal Current Anthropology:
“The incorporation of increasingly greater amounts of animal products into the diet was essential in the development of the large human brain.”
Yet so-called health experts continue to recommend and promote meat-free diets?
Realistically, there shouldn’t be a ‘debate’ with information like this. As even if it was possible to manufacture a plant-based diet with adequate amounts of DHA, B12, iron, fat-soluble vitamins, and essential amino acids (hint: it isn’t), it doesn’t change the fact that we’re supposed to eat meat. And this is what prompted the transition from an ape with a large metabolically expensive gut to a more intelligent human with a big fat-fueled brain.
So vegetarians and vegans can go ahead and try to steer the conversation towards inferior meat-free alternatives, unproven cancer and heart disease claims, and one-sided environmental arguments. But what’s the point in even going there?
We grew a bigger brain and became human when we started eating meat. PERIOD!
And when looking at the animal-to-plant ratios in the hunter-gatherer tribes we derived from, the probability is high that we’re supposed to eat A LOT of it:
“73% of the world’s hunters-gatherers obtained >50% of their subsistence from hunted and fished animal foods, whereas only 14% of worldwide hunter gatherers obtained >50% of their subsistence from gathered plant foods.” Cordain et al, AJCN, 2000
How many obtained 80-100% of their subsistence from gathered plant foods?
0%!
A figure that should discourage anyone from recommending a meat-free diet, regardless of how many algae derived DHA caps and B12 sublinguals they think they can choke down to make up for it.
Or simply put:
ALL humans evolved eating meat, and eating meat is what made us ALL human.
So let’s start the conversation there.
Stay Lean!
Coach Mike
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