The Paleo diet is great, but I'm not sure how much I agree with the idea that nothing has changed sinced the days of our ancestors. Perhaps biologically we are very much the same, but our lifestyles are vastly different. Does this not affect the way our body functions? Palaeolithic people didn't:
- Read
- Write fiction
- Drive/fly (not without machines, you understand)
- Play games
- Write articles or non-fiction
- Write academic essays
- Do maths
- Go to school
- Watch TV
- Use electronics
- Live on Facebook
- Live on Second Life
- Research on the Internet
- Exhaust themselves clothes-shopping
- Exhaust themselves food-shopping
- Stand in queues
- Stand (or sit) on the Underground/Metro
- Stop mid-walk to take a photograph
- Puzzle with a map
- Use a microwave: food was freshly made and prepared, and took time to cook over a fire.
- Use an oven
- Use a fridge
- Use a kettle
- Take a bus
- Take synthetic medications
- Watch a film
- Go to the cinema
- Go to the theatre
- Take a plane
- Travel to colder climates
- Travel to warmer climates
- Use money
- Play cards
- Play board games
- Go to casinos
- Go bowling
- Cycle
- Use a gym
- Inhale fumes from factories, cars, planes, etc
- Do 'manly' things, if they were women. Women might cook, clean, bear and look after children, catch fish, collect vegetables, and do some manual labour.
- Do 'feminine' things, if they were men.
- Use plastics - http://www.motherearthnews.com/Natural-Health/Safe-Plastics-Endocrine-Disruptors-BPA.aspx; http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14991881
- Have access to foods from all over the world, all seasons: they ate what was available in their area at a given time of year.
- Grow up eating sweets, crisps, chocolate bars, ice creams, prepared foods....
- Eat gluten
- Survive medical conditions and diseases which could not be treated by jungle (natural) medicine.
- Write a silly blog post about all the things they don't do.
- Have a desk job
Have I missed any?
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