Comments on: Modern Man a Wimp, According to Anthropologist http://blog.zeroinginonhealth.com/2009/10/22/modern-man-a-wimp-according-to-anthropologist/ Charles Washington's Zero-Carb Weblog for Health Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:59:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Charles http://blog.zeroinginonhealth.com/2009/10/22/modern-man-a-wimp-according-to-anthropologist/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Charles Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:47:53 +0000 http://blog.zeroinginonhealth.com/?p=1338#comment-264 I disagree. When insulin is high, cortisone and adrenaline are unable to do their job and calm us in the way they are supposed to. One of the first things that people report on a high-fat diet is the increased calm and sense of well-being that they experience. It’s almost unanimous in my experience. We are so stressed out because of the way we eat. These foods affect our immune system and every other system in the body adversely.

Their descendants suffer because we have hoarded them on reservations and we feed them a high-carbohydrate diet. The PIMA are the most sickly of all and their diet is very Western. They suffer the highest rate of diabetes, heart disease and obesity on the planet. Is there any wonder? This was a very proud and powerful people until the river they relied on was stopped up in order to support agriculture.

Don’t get me started.

For more on the plight of the Native American, read articles on this blog. We have Nobel prize winning authors such as Albert Schweitzer who reported on their conditions. Government rations are obviously not the healthiest.

Thanks for reading,

Charles

]]> By: thomasR http://blog.zeroinginonhealth.com/2009/10/22/modern-man-a-wimp-according-to-anthropologist/comment-page-1/#comment-263 thomasR Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:40:54 +0000 http://blog.zeroinginonhealth.com/?p=1338#comment-263 One thing about modern man: he’s experiences more *mental* stress than his ancestors. This isn’t good for the body or its development. Maybe it’s part of the reason for our addiction to carbs — we live in a stress-based civilisation and such food is on the menu of available tranquilisers.

And it’s not like the Aboriginal or Native American cultures could protect us from this. Their remaining descendants suffer disproportionately from obesity and alcoholism from what I gather.

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