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**boltondd** · 09-21-2012, 04:56 PM

About The idea for eating like our forefathers is offer to live a healthy lifestyle to achieve balanced health as the principle of balance between yin and yang properties in an increasingly toxic world.

This probably one of the biggest reasons why the western world suffers from obesity. Changing lifestyles without changing eating habits. In the past, high calory food was a necessity for a large part of the population due to the fact that the work they did was hard, manual labour!

You cannot dig for coal with a pick axe for 12 hours a day without the calory input to support that activity, hence beef fat buttes etc.

It's all very well to have a rosy view of the past but it wasn't that rosy. Fertiliser tended to be human and animal waste along with the full complement of parasites which were passed on generation after generation. Then there was disease pool in the animal population that the mosquito was more than glad to pass on (they still do in many parts of the world).

I would venture to suggest that the only way you can practise these "back to nature lifestyles" is because of the advances made over the last couple of centuries.

As FIP as already pointed out, that is why the average age at death as steadily risen over the last centuries (except for those places where primitive conditions still exist).

09-21-2012, 04:56 PM	#27
boltondd Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 432 Senior Member	About The idea for eating like our forefathers is offer to live a healthy lifestyle to achieve balanced health as the principle of balance between yin and yang properties in an increasingly toxic world. This probably one of the biggest reasons why the western world suffers from obesity. Changing lifestyles without changing eating habits. In the past, high calory food was a necessity for a large part of the population due to the fact that the work they did was hard, manual labour! You cannot dig for coal with a pick axe for 12 hours a day without the calory input to support that activity, hence beef fat buttes etc. It's all very well to have a rosy view of the past but it wasn't that rosy. Fertiliser tended to be human and animal waste along with the full complement of parasites which were passed on generation after generation. Then there was disease pool in the animal population that the mosquito was more than glad to pass on (they still do in many parts of the world). I would venture to suggest that the only way you can practise these "back to nature lifestyles" is because of the advances made over the last couple of centuries. As FIP as already pointed out, that is why the average age at death as steadily risen over the last centuries (except for those places where primitive conditions still exist).
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