But, humans aren't carnivores, we're omnivores. Agreed most of our modern diets include way too much sugar and are otherwise imbalanced.
We need the carbs (and many other nutrients) in whole fruits and vegetables.
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We don’t need the carbs with consistent food resource availability. We have the capacity to convert carbohydrates into adipose tissue stored energy in fat to survive lean times. This is an important and often overlooked distinction.
Most carnivores are technically omnivorous, as are most herbivores. Lions occasionally eat grass. Deer occasionally eat carrion. Many plant-eaters also eat some insects.
However most omnivores heavily specialize in some area(s) of food availability, with areas of specialization differentiating between insects, verterbrate meat, fruit, leaves/grasses, tubers, seeds, gums, and fungus.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4100522/
As to human evolution in particular, there are a variety of lines of evidence supporting human carnivory such as stomach pH (and many other modern anatomical features), nitrogen isotope evidence of paleolithic trophic level, and direct artefacts such as bone with butcher marks and cave paintings of animal hunts.
not sure i wholly agree about us being true omnivores; although, we are capable of consumption of veg., it is not an ideal source of nutrition; besides from not being able to digest the cellulose part (about 1/3 or so--the fiber) of plants, the cellular structure inhibits absorption and just makes the whole digestive process inefficient thus large amounts of byproducts (waste). Garbage in, garbage out. Observe your surroundings and ask why are so many people sick, obese, and plagued with chronic illnesses, let alone the US spends probably the most on health care and ranks poorly in overall health. I am a firm believer that metabolic disorders are the root cause of most health issues and fairly easily fixed by a simple prescription, not Jardiance, something free and only words, STOP EATING CARBOHYDRATES . SIMPLE AND YET TRULY EFFECTIVE. If anyone wishes to literally turn back the clock and stop disease is its tracks, FOLLOW THE SCRIPT THAT ACTUALLY HEALS PEOPLPE AND NOT TREAT SYMPTOMS . ALL THE WHILE KEEPING THE HEALTH CRISIS SILENT AND PRESCRIPTION COMMERCIALS AT AN ALL TIME PEAK. WE KEEP GETTING SICKER WHILE THE RICH GET RICHER. THE BIG PUSH IS PLANT BASED THIS AND PLANT BASED THAT, AND WHO'S PUSHING THIS NARRATIVE, DEFINITELY NO ONE I'D TRUST, WOULD YOU?
Oh, I definitely don't trust the mainstream "health" narrative AT ALL. Never said I did, nor that I ascribe to their food pyramid. I do not. Perhaps you'd be interested in an actual discussion?
I am currently reading "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" by Weston A Price. Wonderful, fascinating read! It is infuriating, really, that we've had this detailed study available for nearly a hundred years and it has been ignored by health professionals etc. I guess that's corporatocracy at work.
For my part, I will continue to study and experiment, and seek to be the healthiest I can be.
with a RDA of a 60-75% recommended carb intake, it's plainly obvious that something is definitely awry. Look at enormous magnitude of imbalance happening in the current society; it just abounds with an array abnormalities for the Animal Kingdom, such as countless autoimmune disorders, hormonal dysfunction, and neurological issues, to name a few; this is the epitome of imbalance in nature. Are we the most intelligent species? Or, just to smart for our own good?
Does it seem strange that despite so much technological advancement and innovation that there are pretty much not a single cure for any of the "chronic diseases" that plague the world, yet there is a pill, potion, or lotion, for every single symptom of each disease and a medical practitioner for just about every single organ, system, or part of the human anatomy. And not to mention that throughout all stages of academia, two most important aspects of our lives, HEALTH and WEALTH, is ever discussed or taught.
sorry about the rant and complete disdain for how we've been lied and neglected to by our very own GOV'Ts. A true travesty. An we continue to be divisive just as they want, because if united as a whole there would be no way in hell this kind of tyrannical behavior would continue unchallenged. BTC is a breath of clean air and a long awaited taste of true freedom.