Comments on: NBC News: Raw Food Diet

By: Healthy Eating

Healthy Eating — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:54:30 +0000

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By: Laine Eacret

Laine Eacret — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:17:05 +0000

attention-grabbing matter, i by no means seen something about this before

By: Radjehuty

Radjehuty — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:55:11 +0000

Really? Have any …
Really? Have any sources you can point to so I can read further about this?

By: Radjehuty

Radjehuty — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:55:11 +0000

Great thanks! I’ll …
Great thanks! I’ll definitely look this up.

By: Soulblackman

Soulblackman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:55:11 +0000

So at the end of …
So at the end of the day, is a 100% raw food infeasible, unnatural and dangerous?

By: sunnyreds41

sunnyreds41 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:55:11 +0000

baboons eat …
baboons eat gazelle’s all the time. thier a lot like dogs or wolves the way they hunt

By: Radjehuty

Radjehuty — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:55:11 +0000

Well sure people …
Well sure people can consume too much of anything. Moderation is certainly key to any diet and staying healthy in general.

I don’t question people’s tendency to eat TOO much meat especially in today’s culture, but the original argument was about how people are trying to prove based on superficial anatomical observations that we’re plant eaters ONLY. This is clearly not the case as we do have the biology to digest animal meat.

It should be noted though that gorillas do also eat invertebrates.

By: AfricanKillerBee

AfricanKillerBee — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:55:11 +0000

Raw food diet is …
Raw food diet is the diet for weight loss! Think about it – if you don’t intake any fat, then you body uses what is stored!!!

By: Soulblackman

Soulblackman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:55:11 +0000

That last point is …
That last point is quite interesting. What kinds of invertabrea do they eat? Surely, not shellfish. I think one could make the argument for humans being essentially herbivorous, again, the teeth we have could prove we are more than leaf and fruit eaters, that we can eat bamboo and shoots. But tell me more about the gorilla.

By: Radjehuty

Radjehuty — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:55:11 +0000

If you do some …
If you do some quick research, you’ll find that in fact there’s only a few primates that are strictly carnivores or herbivores. The majority of them are omnivores. Baboons for example have been known to take down animals such as antelope.

As for gorillas, the diets range very widely but many of them eat insects. Chimps have also been known to crack open clam shells to eat what’s on the inside.

I’m all for eating much more fruits and veggies but clearly we’re omnivores too.