Our alimentary tract has been designed to essentially eat fruits and vegetables. Fish is good too. Chicken is not as good but better than red meat. Cooked veg food is nice but doesn't make you feel as alive as when you eat a good salad. Doesn't hurt of course to remember that old Egyptian proverb:
"One quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three-quarters keep your doctor alive."
And how can we forget to exercise enough?
''Our alimentary tract has been designed to essentially eat fruits and vegetables''
ReplyDeleteThe alimentary tract wasn't designed -- it just evolved ...!
Evolved or not, here's a starting point.
ReplyDeleteWe can just hope that people realise that our carb-heavy diet (white flour, white rice, white sugar) that could be relevant for our grandfathers physically toiling from dusk to dawn is no longer relevant to our present way of life. And that a healthy life depends on being active and eating according to the lifestyle, not in being trendy in being seen eating at Mc Donalds'...
Initial design + evolution = another design.
ReplyDeleteWe should have those numbers of how long it takes our body to digest a hamburger up. And compare them to eating let's say a fusilli salad :)
ReplyDelete"Evolved or not"
"Initial design + evolution = another design."
Stop using the word 'design' in context with physiology please! Design is something intentional, evolution had no purpose ...no design and no goal. Indeed there are bad 'designs' of evolution.
Of course evolution has a purpose and that is to adapt to a new environment. Compare the lions of the Mara to those of the Tsavo.
ReplyDelete''...purpose and that is to adapt to a new environment''
ReplyDeleteWell maybe but the purpose/goal of evolution (if we really want one for the purpose of this discussion) is gene spreading (think Dawkins -- the selfish gene).
Anyway let's get back to the flat-tax issues
Evolution is a mixture of intention and ability. Another word for ability is design. No let's stay on evolution.
ReplyDelete"No let's stay on evolution."
ReplyDeleteNo, no, we risk trivialising Darwinism.
Anyway, I look forward to reading more about our economy.
Evolution or not...
ReplyDeleteKeep calm and eat your veggies!
Guys, it makes you more attractive! Er, in the olfactory sense, that it is...
As a matter of principle, don't feed the trolls. Especially the anonymous ones - if they think they can attract my attention with their immature hide-and-seek game...