So Many Fat Young Kids around !!!

[Racing roadkill]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-paleo-diet-half-baked-how-hunter-gatherer-really-eat/

And?

 

[John the Monkey]

And?

But?

 

[swee'pea99]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-paleo-diet-half-baked-how-hunter-gatherer-really-eat/

Haven't read the whole thread, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that the British population has never been so healthy, en masse, as it was during WW2, when the entire population lived on what amounted to a stone age diet: lots of basic fruit & veg and grains; very little meat and hardly any animal fats; almost no sugar. Michael Pollan, famously: 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.'

 

[Markymark]

So why are so many rural kids around Lincolnshire obese, when there may not be a fast food outlet for many miles?

Lincolnshire? Inbreeding.

 

[John the Monkey]

...when the entire population lived on what amounted to a stone age diet: lots of basic fruit & veg and grains; very little meat and hardly any animal fats; almost no sugar. Michael Pollan, famously: 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.'

The article is worth reading - "the stone age diet" and the idea of modern humans as hunter gatherers marooned and out of place in the modern era bears critical examination. (I have the book mentioned in it on my "to read" pile, but haven't got around to it yet).

Which isn't to say that 21st century diets are bad (or good, for that matter) just that basing our diets and lifestyles on a fantastic vision of our paleolithic selves is more difficult than people think.

 

[vernon]

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[srw]

Haven't read the whole thread, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that the British population has never been so healthy, en masse, as it was during WW2, when the entire population lived on what amounted to a stone age diet: lots of basic fruit & veg and grains; very little meat and hardly any animal fats; almost no sugar. Michael Pollan, famously: 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.'

Not true. We're more healthy now than ever before, largely as a result of medical advances. Life expectancy is greater than it has ever been.

 

[swee'pea99]

Not true. We're more healthy now than ever before, largely as a result of medical advances. Life expectancy is greater than it has ever been.

I'm not sure about that. Life expectancy and health aren't the same thing. I suspect more of us live more unhealthy lives, for longer, largely, indeed, thanks to medical advances. Compare a nine year old from 1942 and a nine year old today, and I suspect you'd find that today's nine year old, while certainly have a higher life expectancy than his peer of 70-odd years back, would compare very unfavourably in terms of health.

 

[srw]

I'm not sure about that. Life expectancy and health aren't the same thing. I suspect more of us live more unhealthy lives, for longer, largely, indeed, thanks to medical advances. Compare a nine year old from 1942 and a nine year old today, and I suspect you'd find that today's nine year old, while certainly have a higher life expectancy than his peer of 70-odd years back, would compare very unfavourably in terms of health.

I disagree, but I don't have the stats to hand. Compare respective 40yos or 60yos and I know you're wrong.

 

[MarkF]

I know hospital elderly wards are at breaking point, full of people who are living longer, but who will never "live" again.

 

[Sara_H]

It doesn't matter anyway. All todays young kids are going to be toasted alive when they're pensioners due to climate change. The fatter ones will burn for a bit longer.

 

[classic33]

It doesn't matter anyway. All todays young kids are going to be toasted alive when they're pensioners due to climate change. The fatter ones will burn for a bit longer.

Well I've
You have:
8258 days, 8 hours, 53 minutes, and 11 seconds left until you exit this world.


http://www.invidion.co.uk/countdown/control.php or http://www.invidion.co.uk/countdown_to_death.php

 

[Andrew_P]

 

[jefmcg]

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[Andrew_P]

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I love some of the old advertising