I've eaten at Greenfields, Roda Vida (no longer in business), and Amazon (in Fullerton) and all their food is quite salty. May I offer an alternative? I'll take you and your wife to Wood Ranch. I think their steaks are better than Ruth Chris, Gulliver's, Morton's, or any other high-end steak house. Last time I went I had two 16oz ribeyes, and a full rack of Baby Back ribs. I was a major topic of conversation among the staff at that visit. No one had ever eaten that much food before, much less all meat. One of the issues with the Brazilian BBQs is that I can't order the meat rare. At best it's medium well. I much prefer my beef as rare as possible.
A valid point about the well-doneness. Being a BBQ fan, I forgot about that point. Though you can get to med-rare if you limit yourself to the larger hunks of meat and have the servers bring the spit to you before they would normally put it back on the fire. But enough of that silliness, better that Ruths Chris you say? I think I could forgo the salt experiment.
I'm sure I could talk the GF into a steak outing. At the very least it would stop her from pestering me for yet more steak. You see we only eat it 3 or 4 times a week. I'll get back to you when the schedule lightens up. It would seem the GF will be out of commission due to a surgery late this month. Nothing serious, just annoying.
I'm no longer convinced that paleo humans ate as much plant material as we've been lead to believe. Take a look at this link: http://www.biblelife.org/woman7700.htm and 7,000 years was not all that long ago. I have no idea if there is anything further on this subject, however, it is interesting that the idea that humans have always included significant amounts of plant foods, especially seasonal fruits, in their diet, is seldom challenged. If the information in the above link is accurate, then maybe we are really top level carnivores and not omnivores at all.
I have no doubt that we are top level carnivores. But by the same token, I have no doubt that we ate whatever we could. This would in part explain why we exist everywhere. In the wild, most animals eat whatever they can just to survive. Plants, I suspect specifically tubers, would have provided survival rations when game was sparse. Then there is the whole sweet tooth thing. Nature is not one to be frivolous. Of this is all conjecture. Just like all the other "experts".
Think about our pets. Today we routinely feed our dogs and cats commercial pet food that is comprised mostly of grains. Because they've eaten grain based food from the time they were weaned, know no other food, often reject raw meat in favor of the more familiar grain based food, and don't immediately die from eating a diet of grains, does this prove that dogs and cats are vegetarians? How is this different from the environment that we humans are raised in today? We grow up eating grain based foods from the time we are weaned, we don't know anything else, and we pass the same dietary aberrations on to our children generation after generation after generation.
I'm well aware that cats and dogs occasionally chew on grass, but if you observe their feces, you'll find that it passes through undigested. The total amount of grass consumed is such a small part of their diet that is is almost unmeasurable in terms of volume or weight and truly infinitesimal as percent of calories.
I feed my dogs raw meat. My GF really enjoys the uh... sound of bones being crunched.
They are absolutely healthier and happier on raw. They would probably be even better off if I were to use Slankers and the like. But I go through 4 pounds of food a day, they'll make due on commercial critters.
Like most raw food feeders, I am very well acquainted feces. So much so that I pay attention to the stuff I find on our walks. Coyote scat often contains berry seeds when the are available. And "theBear" not withstanding, canids are more carnivore than we are. Does it amount to a lot of calories? No. But it does show that carnivores will eat what they can. Why wouldn't we?
If we reject the premise that humans are omnivores, and adopt the idea that we may have evolved as top level carnivores, then why would we want to eat carbs at all, unless our meat supply were to disappear and it becomes a matter of survival? Food for thought.....
I hate the term omnivore. It's a silly thing. If you go out into the woods a look around, nearly everything you see is edible by something. And yet 99% of all of that "food" is completely inedible to us. 1% is hardly "omni" in my book. Nope, we are carnivores plain and simple.
As to why we should eat carbs? In a vacuum we shouldn't. But we don't live in a vacuum as you pointed out. All I was saying was that if we want to go with the flow socially, then it might be best to keep our bodies in a state that the occasional social gathering doesn't make us pay the price for good week afterward. Your symptoms were hardly mild. And as bad as you felt on the outside I'm sure the inside was taking a beating as well. The real questions are, "how much is enough?" and "is that too much to be worth it?". As for the first, I have no idea. The second, well that's a personal call.
-E
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