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I posted this a while back but realized the article was not complete (system conversion stuff). Here is the article written by OneBreath - if you want to see the "raw data" he refers to you can check it out on my blog: www.barenakd.com/blog
I'll be posting a video all about my avocado love tomorrow ;-)
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Of the many things I’ve discovered while studying the so called Paleo Diet, by far the most fascinating is how our transition from a meat and plant based diet, to a grain based diet, is actually described with striking accuracy in the Book of Genesis.
Today we imagine the Paleolithic man as a cave man, beating his chest and clubbing his cave neighbors. However, the evidence points to quite the opposite for our meat, vegetable, and fruit eating ancestors. Their intricate cave art and burial practices indicate a rich spiritual tradition and belief in an afterlife. They also enjoyed the most leisure time of ANY culture to follow. We can find very little evidence that there was anything resembling what we would consider fighting or war. They lived as small family units with the men and women sharing equal responsibility and decision making power. If anything, women seemed to have a more important role than males. The first shaman was a woman and the sculptures of that era all seem to revere the feminine. Other than basic survival issues, they experienced nothing like what we would think of as stress.
All of this and no obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer: could we be talking about the Garden of Eden?
So what happened? In the parable of Adam and Eve, God kicks man out of the Garden of Eden with these words:
Genesis 3:16 “And he said to Eve, I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children.”
Genesis 3:17, 3:18, and 3:19 “And he said to Adam, cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
We know that at some time around 9,000 BC to 7,000 BC, societies of farming developed and our diet quickly changed to mainly grains. As a result our physical characteristics changed dramatically. We quickly shrank in average height by 5 inches. In addition, the pelvic inlet depth shrank. How is this significant? The pelvic inlet depth is a measure of the size of the pelvic canal through which a baby would pass during childbirth. So it is more difficult today to have a child than it was in 10,000 BC.
How much more difficult is it? We can see by looking at the few Paleolithic or “Hunter/Gatherer” cultures left. Dr. Weston Price examined some of these cultures in the 1920s and found that those that had not introduced grain into their diets didn’t sufferer from any of our modern diseases. Among them, the Alaskan Eskimos and Indians had still maintained a diet of consisting of meat and fat with absolutely no grain.
Below is an excerpt from his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration:
A similar impressive comment was made to me by Dr. Romig, the superintendent of the government hospital for Eskimos and Indians at Anchorage, Alaska. He stated that in his thirty-six years among the Eskimos, he had never been able to arrive in time to see a normal birth by a primitive Eskimo woman. But conditions have changed materially with the new generation of Eskimo girls, born after their parents began to use foods of modern civilization. Many of them are carried to his hospital after they had been in labor for several days. One Eskimo woman who had married twice, her last husband being a white man, reported to Dr. Romig and myself that she had given birth to twenty-six children and that several of them had been born during the night and that she had not bothered to waken her husband, but had introduced him to the new baby in the morning.
Below is the actual raw data showing the decline in both height and pelvic inlet depth. Note the sharp initial declines after the mass introduction of grains into the human diet. After all of this time we have just now almost gained back the height, but the pelvic inlet depth is still significantly less than it was in 10,000 BC.
Bread anyone?
(take a look at the raw data at www.barenakd.com/blog)
I'll be posting a video all about my avocado love tomorrow ;-)
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Of the many things I’ve discovered while studying the so called Paleo Diet, by far the most fascinating is how our transition from a meat and plant based diet, to a grain based diet, is actually described with striking accuracy in the Book of Genesis.
Today we imagine the Paleolithic man as a cave man, beating his chest and clubbing his cave neighbors. However, the evidence points to quite the opposite for our meat, vegetable, and fruit eating ancestors. Their intricate cave art and burial practices indicate a rich spiritual tradition and belief in an afterlife. They also enjoyed the most leisure time of ANY culture to follow. We can find very little evidence that there was anything resembling what we would consider fighting or war. They lived as small family units with the men and women sharing equal responsibility and decision making power. If anything, women seemed to have a more important role than males. The first shaman was a woman and the sculptures of that era all seem to revere the feminine. Other than basic survival issues, they experienced nothing like what we would think of as stress.
All of this and no obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer: could we be talking about the Garden of Eden?
So what happened? In the parable of Adam and Eve, God kicks man out of the Garden of Eden with these words:
Genesis 3:16 “And he said to Eve, I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children.”
Genesis 3:17, 3:18, and 3:19 “And he said to Adam, cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
We know that at some time around 9,000 BC to 7,000 BC, societies of farming developed and our diet quickly changed to mainly grains. As a result our physical characteristics changed dramatically. We quickly shrank in average height by 5 inches. In addition, the pelvic inlet depth shrank. How is this significant? The pelvic inlet depth is a measure of the size of the pelvic canal through which a baby would pass during childbirth. So it is more difficult today to have a child than it was in 10,000 BC.
How much more difficult is it? We can see by looking at the few Paleolithic or “Hunter/Gatherer” cultures left. Dr. Weston Price examined some of these cultures in the 1920s and found that those that had not introduced grain into their diets didn’t sufferer from any of our modern diseases. Among them, the Alaskan Eskimos and Indians had still maintained a diet of consisting of meat and fat with absolutely no grain.
Below is an excerpt from his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration:
A similar impressive comment was made to me by Dr. Romig, the superintendent of the government hospital for Eskimos and Indians at Anchorage, Alaska. He stated that in his thirty-six years among the Eskimos, he had never been able to arrive in time to see a normal birth by a primitive Eskimo woman. But conditions have changed materially with the new generation of Eskimo girls, born after their parents began to use foods of modern civilization. Many of them are carried to his hospital after they had been in labor for several days. One Eskimo woman who had married twice, her last husband being a white man, reported to Dr. Romig and myself that she had given birth to twenty-six children and that several of them had been born during the night and that she had not bothered to waken her husband, but had introduced him to the new baby in the morning.
Below is the actual raw data showing the decline in both height and pelvic inlet depth. Note the sharp initial declines after the mass introduction of grains into the human diet. After all of this time we have just now almost gained back the height, but the pelvic inlet depth is still significantly less than it was in 10,000 BC.
Bread anyone?
(take a look at the raw data at www.barenakd.com/blog)
