natural diet

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Hi all;

 

Regarding what is a " natural " diet for humans. I used to think that a raw food

hygiene-style diet was natural, when I erroneously thought that primates ate a

vegan diet in the wild. Now, I understand that they, our closest biological

relative in nature, eat all raw, yes, but include animal products on an

occassional but regular basis, as well as their own fecal matter. (Yuck,

gross!) The animal products are their identifiable source of B12.

 

That is what is natural for primates in nature and was natural for humans before

the developments of technology made B12 available in supplement form.

 

The thing is, humans are beginning to see the need to choose a vegan diet at

this stage of our evolution, and fortunately, because of having evolved the

technology to supply ourselves with the B12 we need in supplement form, we can

do that. Eating animal products was essential at one stage of our human

evolution, but that has changed, just like what is natural tends to change from

one stage of life to the next. For example, what is natural for a human as a

baby changes as the person ages. Not only do we now have the freedom to choose

a vegan diet, clearly it is wise for us to make that change, just like it is

best for the baby and it's mother, for children to be weaned from the mother's

breast and onto a solid diet when they get bit enough.

 

I think this is the case for human kind in general. I think that when we had no

technology (and were in our infancy, as if were), we had to eat animal products

to obtain the B12 we need. Now, in maybe our adolescence as a specie, we have

technology to supply us far more efficiently with B12, which frees us to avail

ourselves of the advantages of a plant food diet and save the various costs of

animal products. I think we have outgrown the need to rely on animal products,

although our need for B12 is the same as always, and I think that is natural. I

think it is natural for us as a specie, and that it is necessary for the health

and happiness of Our Mother Earth, for us to make that switch.

 

Does that make sense do you think?

 

Deborah

 

 

 

Jeffrey Novick, MS, RD, Senior Nutritionist at the Pritikin Clinic

in Florida, himself a raw foods vegan, informed me this morning

that there are some studies of clinical blood values on vegans

following natural hygiene diets, and that deficiencies have been

reported for unsupplemented vegans, both on Natural Hygiene diets

AND on the " Hallelujah Diet " .

 

Have listmembers found any systematic data -- not opinions --

in this area?

 

This would imply that, apart from the worldview predispositions

towards following hygienic-style diets, the experiences of the

followers of unsupplemented " Hallelujah Diet " diets and the

natural hygiene style diets, as well as unsupplemented macrobiotic

diets, have some significant biochemical and health parallels.

 

I wonder if the suggestion of nutrition supplementation, and its

significant as an " intervention " of some artificiality, alters the

nature of the rationale or the justification for the diet.

 

Maynard S. Clark

 

 

 

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