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Originally Posted by jtrikster  agreed. u just can't cut out a whole food group. there are nutrients in grains that you won't find anywhere else. |
With all due respect, this is simply not true. If it were, we would not exist as a species. "Cavemen," that we are all decended from, never had an ounce of nutitional science, nor technology. Only instinct. My mom would not have survived her severe food allergies where she thrived for 20 years eating only 8-10 foods total. "Food groups" are an invention of modern day food wholesalers. Having nothing to do with how humans intuitively eat, or need to eat; based on season, locale, availability, drought, weather, nomadic activity, trade, animal migration, etc.
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in response to what jennihul commented on: Through scientific experiments, scientists have found that there is a specific molecule found in plants that we can only get from plants. Through numerous other experiments they have found that this molecule is an essential part of our diet and good health. For the life of me I can't remember the name of the doctor, so I'll have to get back to you on that.
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No one said to eliminate plants. Just
grains. Though, humans have survived and thrived on experiments involving
only meat for years at a time with no obvious ill effects. Pemmican, in fact.
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To get to the point, I mentioned the veggie experiment because there are still things we don't know about foods and that's why we continue to research. For the longest time doctors did not know about the 'special veggie molecule' and for all we know, grains could be the same way. I don't know if grains aren't an essential componenet of diet, but that'll be something I'll ask my nutrition professor.
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"Knowing" about foods and nutrition is fun and useful but human bodies just do what they do with what they find. The closer to nature, the better. As it's been for hundreds of thousands of years. In fact, the more we know about food and nutrition, the sicker we seem to get as a species. Grains as we know them are hybridized and genetically modified and completely unnatural in the state we use them. Cavemen had no grains because the technology required to grow a significant grain harvest wasn't invented yet. But they lived to pass their DNA to all of us. DNA which hasn't significantly changed since then. Research and understanding shouldn't require a change in one's ancestral diet one iota.
Jennifer