Both of my grand parents died from alcohol. I wonder though; surely somewhere along the line man is adapting to it. Schrodenger's cats couldn't reproduce after the third generation of cooked food and man has been eating cooked food for far longer then he's presumably been drinking alcohol and we haven't gone extinct.
At least not yet!
If we were adapted, we would be at least partially immune to the heat-created toxins derived from cooking such as AGEs/advanced glycation end products.No evidence exists to suggest that. Plus, for most of the period since cooking began, Humanity has been only eating some of its diet in cooked form. The advent of agriculture increased the amount of cooked foods in the diet, and this(or dysgenics) has resulted in a c.10-11% decrease in the average human brain-size(and a corresponding drop in intelligence). In other words, adaptation to cooked foods may well lead to a decrease in the future health/well-being of future generations etc.
Oh, and then there is the "panda paradox". Pandas have been eating bamboo for 2 million years plus, and the panda STILL hasn't adapted to a bamboo diet fully(just incorporating a bamboo-eating enzyme but still retaining a carnivorous digestive system all those millions of years). In other words, length of time on a diet does not imply adaptation, however long that time might have been.
