These are my thoughts and my theory
They are not based on any in-depth research or knowledge on the matter as I’m quite ignorant of the research and I’m no scientist but based on my logic and what I’ve read and my association with a football nutritionist
1. Evolution of the human digestive system
It has evolved to allow us to be Omniverous but millions of years of evolution has purely helped us to have children, look after them, teach them to hunt and survive, pass on our genes and then die.
Our gut hasn’t evolved to keep us alive and fit into our 90’s because it hasn’t needed to. It’s been designed to make us flexible in our foodstuffs to help us survive in the greatest spread of environments up to the age of around 40 (20 years past past prime procreation age)
Personally I don’t think our body copes very well with the build up of toxins, animal fats and digestion of meat over a long period of time
2. What we generally know about nutrition and diet is I think rubbish and we are only just now understanding what might be going on because of lack of proper funded research
No big food producer is going to waste money on research that tells us just to eat fresh vegetables. So this mantra of a ‘balanced diet’ keeps coming out but no one really knows what bit of our diets is killing us
Instead researchers look at the world and just see who is the healthier (living the longest) and see what they are eating, that’s why this ‘mediterranean’ thing keeps coming up. Also the Japanese diet of lots of veg and fish, little meat diet but that is skewed by up to recently a lot of Japanese smoking so other lifestyle bits come into play
3. Who do I trust?
Nutritionists linked to elite sports science
Why?
Money
Very recently, wealthy sports stars and mega bucks sports organisations are funding this research because it means that they can get the very best out of athletes and sports people to increase their fitness and their longevity in the sport
Interestingly the latest research in this field is all pointing to veganism with extracted proteins so you don’t have to digest the animal fats to get the protein requirement
