...the white and the yoke should be ingested separately and if you do not like the white, spit it. For the following eggs, separate the white in a glass or a cup....
I mean, when you break a small hole in an egg's shell, the white comes out first. You can drink it if you like, reject it if you don't like it, and subsequent eat the yoke. Then you proceed the same way with the next egg. I don’t know anyone eating only the whites and rejecting the yokes, but the opposite is quite frequent.
More people nowadays in the US unfortunately discard the yolks and use just the whites, for cooking purposes as well as supposed "health" reasons--how ironic. There are even frozen egg-whites and egg white powders that do this for you. A friend of mine used to eat only the whites and followed other misguided conventional health advice. He developed lethal leukemia.
Dogs are able to separate the whites and the yokes and choose instinctively the part they like or both.
Interesting. I don't have a pet or a child, but in all the posts I've seen about people feeding their dogs or cats entire raw eggs they said they ate everything, shell and all, so maybe this is more common among pets than eating only white or yolk? Here are some examples from the PaleoFood forum:
> "My dog eats [eggs] raw, including the shell."
> "...what you do is let him roll the eggs around on the floor or ground until they crack. Then he'll figure out the good stuff is inside, bite it open, and lick up all the goodie, and then crunch up the shell like a Dorito."
What are the purported reasons or benefits why I should eat eggs like your cat--first the white, then the yolk, then the next white, then the next yolk, and so on (or vice-versa)?
If dogs and babies can do that (my small cat also drinks often the white first !), why Stone Agers wouldn’t be able to reject the white if they didn’t like it ? It’s absolutely opposed to a dietary rule, it’s just a matter of instinctively avoiding ingestion of something you personally don’t like.
I like both the egg yolk and white and my instinct, taste, mouth-feel and hunger tell me to eat the whole thing at once. I find on ZC that my appetite and digestion have improved and I come closer to "wolfing" my food down (I do chew it, but I am able to eat and digest it rather rapidly). I don't feel an urge to spend time separating little things like egg contents apart or sucking first one part, then another.
You do not have to tell an animal how something tastes. There’s no other rule than “what smells and tastes good is good for you”. As I already mentioned it doesn’t work with things artificial, processed, mixed and heated over 40°C.
Right, that sounds like two rules: 1) eat “what smells and tastes good is good for you” and 2) don't eat anything artificial, processed, mixed, or heated over 40°C (and the second rule could be considered four rules if I was being picky
). Apparently, another Instincto rule is that it's OK to eat some foods that were inedible and/or unavailable during the Stone Age, like domesticated bananas, as long as they are part of a Stone Age category of foods (like fruits). I used to think this was an OK assumption to follow, but I question it now (as regards what works for me).
By the way, a whole sequence of process is needed to get milk from an other animal specie or a bowl of grain.
Yep
How do you know that ? How do you define the concept of “optimal food” ?
Basically, what I do well on. I had a similar experience as Lex. I didn't do well eating what my parents or tastes told me to eat and what the doctors and "experts" were telling me and doing for me didn't help much, so I did my own research, found that much of the raw science substantially disagreed with conventional medicine, nutrition and the popular media. My research provided clues as to what would be optimal. I also asked a lot of questions, like I am of you now. I tested the claims that made the most sense and could withstand logical questioning and investigation and found what I did well on. Because of all the artificial and processed junk in the world that overrides our instincts, we can no longer rely on instinct alone to determine what foods to eat, as you discussed above, and have to rely also on our brains.
Don’t you think that a food can be optimal for someone at a given moment and non optimal at another time – or for someone else ?
Yes. I don't concern myself too much about what other people are eating beyond close friends and relatives, except in fleshing out my own thinking and advancing my own learning. As a matter of fact, if you could change your diet to grains, dairy, legumes, sweeteners and additives, that might help keep the cost of my meat/fat/organs down (just kidding
or am I?
).
Eggs are seasonal though. So in any fashion they would have come by them only in parts of the year. But more importantly is that fact that eggs for us now come from birds that eat grain.
Yes, these points make more intuitive sense to me than separating whites and yolks, and, yes, these are reasons why I limit the amount of eggs I eat and am trying to keep enough easy-to-eat meat/fat/organs on hand that I won't need the convenience of eggs as much. Because our foods are changed and adulterated in ways like this, we can no longer rely on instinct alone, unfortunately, and have to also rely on our brains.
Some people cheat with other foods that are not 100% Paleo like like butter or kefir. My cheats at this point in my transition are eating eggs year-round, teas, some olive oil, some light cooking of certain meats/fish, and tallow/pemmican. I doubt I'll ever be able to be 100% "pure," if that's even possible in the modern world. My objective is to maximize my health and well being rather than to hold to some level of purity for its own sake. For example, if I stop drinking tea completely it will be because there is a plausible reason for doing so (antinutrients) and because I do better when I do (possibly avoid occasional heartburn)--not just because tea is heated. I believe that rules should serve me, rather than that I should serve rules. If becoming more pure makes sense, helps my health and well being, and is practicable, then I'll do it. One problem I face is that I live in a tiny urban apartment without cellar or pantry storage and a tiny fridge, so it is more difficult for me to be pure than many people.
BTW, I don't want to come across as too critical of Instincto, as it is very close to my own approach, so I'll reiterate that it is far superior to SAD and correct on a lot of things, based on my own experience and research. Excellent posts, I'm learning quite a bit.
