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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I think its really important to also consider human history as a way to ask "does this theory make sense?"

Humans have consumed meat for millennia, as well as grains, vegetables and fruit. I don't believe that eating meat can possibly have such a negative impact on overall human health, given this.

But you know what has not been consumed for millennia? Processed food and the high high quantity of sugar we now eat. These things have massively knocked our systems for a loop.  [/quote]

I agree to an extent.  Humans have eaten meat for millennia but not in the quantities we do now.  Lots of things have changed, fruit has been bred to be sweeter, thus more sugar.  IMHO, fruit is much better than candy and ice cream, but that doesn't mean you can eat as much as you want.  I also think that juice is as bad as soda.

My husband developed late adult onset type 1 diabetes in his late 40s, he's now 60.  He manages it very well and uses an insulin pump.  It's very interesting what makes his sugar levels spike and how long the spike sustains.  Cornstarch is the worst followed by pasta and bread.  [/quote]

Well, you are essentially agreeing with me.  All the things you list are highly processed. About the meat, the proportion of calories from meat fluctuated over history, but it was always a major part of the human diet. What you are saying however, is also true -- we eat too much in general, and thus too much meat.

Anyhow, my point was basically that if a food or health theory seems really out of whack with the historical human diet, it probably is a bad theory.[/quote]

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