World: r4wp

No .. I haven't thought about it

Actually the answer to the USA's health issues is pretty simple

But the answer is just not palatable to the patients!

Stop eating junk?

The problem with the USA is a western life style.  Take away the 
western life style ... and the western diseases go

Immigrants move to the USA looking for a better life than they had 
. yet typically immigrant children have shorter life spans then their 
migrant parents

Yeah

and you guys in Holland are just as worse off

Not yet, we're always some years behind

Well, it's commonly known here how bad the dutch immigrants here 
have such bad heart disease

All that cheese in their diet I would guess

Interesting. Are those hard statistics? Cheese shouldn't be the problem

The underlying issue is biology.

Humans are most closely related biologically to the great apes .. 
who eat plant based diets.  We have similar teeth and long intestines.

Feed them a saturated fat diet ( from animal products such as milk, 
cheese, meat ) and they get the same illnesses

Carnivores can not get atherosclerosis .. feed them as much animal 
fat as you like.  Only herbivores get atherosclerosis when eating 
saturated fats of animal origin

We're really omnivores, not herbivores

Sure .. we can eat insects to get our B12

All herbivores do not make vitamin C

carnivores make their own vitamin C

Guess what .. we don't make vitamin C either

So you all eat grass on the other side?

yes

rice is the staple food for most of the world

and is a grass

Well, it was half of my food today

Anyway, there's lots of data showing disease progression as populations 
move from Japan/china to hawaii/singapore to USA

as the diet changes to the local diets

and in NZ, the natives and pacific islanders .. all have problems

Anyway, as I said, an unpalatable recipe

Gotta go sleep - my health

Palatable to me Graham.

Is eating lots of potatos part of the Western life style?

Only as french fries.

Good. Not eating those. :-)

Why do groups of chimpanzees hunt monkeys now and then and eat meat?

Dominance issue .. monkeys aren't their main food source

Potatoes come from South America .. and they look very different 
now from those original pototoes!

Sure, apes eat most plants. I just wonder, why they seem to eat meat 
now and then. Maybe there is something in it, they need?

There isn't ...

The only thing missing from a pure plant based diet for humans is 
B12

What about fish? Are there something to the theories, that our brains 
evolved, when we started to eat more fish?

That's an ancient and discredited thesis

and like the great apes, we would get B12 from eating insects

Should move to ~Science so I don't lose this.

Maternal milk contains the fatty acids needed for baby's brain growth

no fish needed!

It seems plausible with the omega 3 in fish, and when we look at 
whales, who as mammals have so large brains too.

whales eat fish ?

fish get their omega 3 from plants