Vocal Voices

Not so nice to know how hard it is going to be to lose all that weight...

This is a syndrome I call "forever Autumn". I've mentioned it here before. And the scientists are right, the few hundred years that we've had year round food availability of Autumn foods is nothing like long enough to overcome the 130 odd thousand years we didn't.... Picture Roman senators. Everything came to Rome and Rome got fat all year round....

I have to agree. I am about to start The Caveman diet to try to shift some fat. It is not calorie deficient, but it tries to take us back to a more basic way of eating without so many carbs and to go a variety of fresh and available foods.

There is also an interesting programme on C5 called 10,000 BC. It is a social experiment where group of people try to fend for themselves as if they were that far back in history. Physiologically our needs are not that much different and though they do not have hunter gatherer skills needed to survive in a meaningful way the can just about cope with a bit of foraging for fruits, edible plants and even to eating worms and snails. What they have not been able to do is to cope psychologically. They might have left the trimmings of C21st behind, but they have not been able to throw off their attitudes, values and coping strategies, all of which would be alien to 10,000 BC people. It is the modern part of their lives that is holding them back and shows in many ways that what is said in the article is true - psychologically we have evolved far beyond the level our bodies have evolved.