Loren Cordain – Origins and Evolution of the Western Diet: Health Implications for the 21st Century.
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There is growing awareness that the profound changes in the environment (eg in diet and other lifestyle conditions) that began with the introduction of agriculture and animal husbandry approximately 10000 years ago occurred too recently on an evolutionary timescale for the human genome to adjust. In conjunction with this discordance between our ancient, genetically-determined biology and the nutritional, cultural and activity patterns of contemporary western populations, many of the so-called diseases of civilization have emerged. In the US and most western countries, diet-related chronic diseases represent the single largest cause of morbidity and mortality. These diseases are epidemic in contemporary, westernized populations and typically afflict 50-65 % of the adult population, yet are rare or non-existent in hunter-gatherers and other less westernized people. Evidence gleaned over the past three decades now indicates that virtually all so-called diseases of civilization have multifactorial dietary elements that underlie their etiology, along with other environmental agents and genetic susceptibility. This talk will trace the origins of the Western diet and discuss the health implications. Dr. Cordain is a Professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. His research emphasis over the past 15 years has focused upon the evolutionary and anthropological basis for diet, health and well being in modern …
@alopez527 all cards are sugar so you might as well just eat candy.
@andrewsheldonreeves ????? chicken breast=high in omega 6, multivitamin=should be getting vitamins from you foods, skim milk=what baby cows drink; are you a baby cow? And where’s the good fat in your diet? I’d call that a lose diet.
@alopez527 chicken breast, multivitimin, and skim milk for the musslebuilding win!
my bodybuilding diet is skinless, boneless, fat free chicken breast and skim milk. It works.
@hitssquad my carbs come from fruits and veggies with occasional and whole grain bread rolled oats oat meal and brown rice so if I get diabetes from that I might as well start eating m&ms and ho hos…;)
@alopez527 “150 grams od protein and 300 grams of carbs and 39 grams of fat.”
Why do you eat only 39 grams of fat but 300 grams of carbs? Are you trying to give yourself diabetes?
@WadeYoder yeah I replaced my protein isolate with oats and whey isolate 200 calories 25 grams of protein 25 grams of carbs. I was using the cassien whey for a while at night then switched over to cottage cheese for the past month. I definately need to take in more calories because I run a lot and I need to replenish. tweaking my diet so that I take in a minimum of 150 grams od protein and 300 grams of carbs and 39 grams of fat.
@alopez527 . Cottage cheese is a great source of cassein, but you can also buy cassein protein powder from most nutrition stores. Regular whey absorbs much faster however and works great just prior or post workout. Cassein is great at night
Sorry to be negative, but when someone has to throw around several hundred thousand years, or millions of years in the beginning of their speech, “it loses credibility with me”. There has nothing evolved differently from the fact that nature still produces the most awesomely packaged multivitamin/multi-mineral/multi-protein from the dirt from where it grew and in the area a person lives. Foods grow in your area for a reason “could it be you”???
I have been eating a lot of steamed veggies fruits fish eggs and almonds. I don’t know if I can totally give up whole wheat/ pumpernickel bread. I have been replacing milk with almond milk (now not too sure if that is good). I work out and use cottage cheese at night because of the cassein protein that I get from it on days that i lift weights. So where can I get my cassein from?