Monday, May 28, 2012

Do You Eat Bones?

I get some of the weirdest questions when I tell people that I try to eat like our ancestors. Like how we were evolved to eat. Especially when its from people who have never heard of this type of eating and if they haven't heard of it yet, it must not be popular. "So uhhh does that mean you only eat meat?", "Does that mean you eat only bones","Do you eat the insides of bones?","Do you only eat raw meat?", "Do you only eat meat that you kill?"

Food has become like dogma. You can't bring up food and a different way of eating without making people defensive. It's emotional. Eating like our ancestors and how we were evolved to eat, is the opposite of dogma. It's running towards science. In science you have no loyalty, you only run towards the truth. Eating this way is against everything most people are taught and believe in. But its what anthropologists, doctors, nutritionists, and even statisticians are coming to. The thing raw vegans, juicers, and paleo people have in common is that they all avoid grains and don't eat things with added sugar or corn based sugars. Even Weightwatchers to Lindora and almost every weight loss center has been turning away from calorie counting and moving towards how our body really absorbs food.

One thing this does say though, questions like the ones posed above does give you an idea of what people think our ancestors ate. Which is meat (which isn't the complete truth, they mostly ate vegetation and meat when they could get it and so most of my diet is also vegetables). One of the people asking me these questions was a vegan. Which makes me wonder, if even he thought that our ancestors ate meat and we evolved doing so, what is so natural about avoiding meat?

And to answer the question, yes I eat bone. But that's only because I am Korean and that is common in the culture.

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