It discusses the corresponding differences in anatomy and stomach structure ( I have no idea how they know this stuff but whatever).
And therein lays the rub. No one knows. Most of this stuff is just a guess – some of it rather uneducated. As such, the best we can do is research and evaluate the evidence for ourselves and make up our own minds as to what to believe and how best to live our lives.
My own belief is that we ate meat and fat as much as possible and resorted to other foods when meat was scarce. Since we have a sweet tooth, and eating carbs causes huge insulin spikes and a resulting rapid weight gain, I believe that we ate whatever fruits were available in the late summer/early fall and the added body fat prepared us for the lean winter months. Over the winter we would use this extra body fat and come spring we would have lost all the extra weight and the cycle would start over again. The key here is that it was a cycle which we see in many other animals as well. Carbs for us would have been limited by seasonal availability so our consumption would have naturally been limited, and the extra body fat taken care of by the next phase in the cycle. Our problem today is that we eat carbs as our primary food all year around and then can’t understand why we get obese and have health problems. Our modern food distribution systems have corrupted the natural seasonal cycles as well as providing an overabundance of food requiring no labor to procure it. Grains, of course are another matter altogether. We’d of had no way of consuming these at all.
Again, all this is pure speculation on my part, and just my person belief. It may have no relationship whatever to reality. You get to make up your own mind.
And so far I feel really great, but am constipated as hell since I've cut out fruit. I can feel there is plenty of stuff down there, but it's not moving out. Mainly because there's no 'pushing agent', i.e. like fruit. Did you ever experience this? Do you think the constipation is a transitional thing and will eventually go away?
I did have a bit of constipation for the first several months but it slowly got better and then finally went away. I handled the problem initially by using one of those squeeze type enema syringes.
http://www.enemasupply.com/faulrecsyr8o.html I’d use it when it just seemed nothing else would get things moving. I found that only one squeeze was usually necessary. This is not a full enema where you use a quart of water or more. The syringe just adds about 6oz of water which seemed to be plenty to do the trick. It did two things. It provided an immediate expansion of the lower colon which triggered a bowel movement, and it loosened up anything that was hard and causing a blockage.
Over time my colon adapted to the smaller volume of fecal material. I also started including more fat in my diet. The additional fat kept things loose and pasty so that they could pass easily. If you try to eat a low fiber diet with too little fat you’ll find that your stools will become hard and difficult to pass – especially if you are in the transition states and your intestinal bacteria have not changed – long before excess protein becomes a problem.
Part of the cause of this issue is that the intestinal flora must change completely and this takes time. I’ve posted details of this elsewhere in my journal and won’t repeat it here.
Lex
