Natural, Healthy Eating

Our dentition suggests that humans evolved as omnivores, eating a large amount of plant food but also the occasional animal when available. We have eye teeth (canines) and incisors (suitable for cutting into flesh) as well as the molars which are more suited for grinding the food small. Our cousins, the great apes, also have a similar dentition and, although their diet is mainly vegetarian, they also eat meat occasionally. The fact that man evolved as a hunter shows that we are definitely meat eaters. There is nothing except hygiene, the tenderising action and long habit which says that we must cook meat before eating it. In fact, there are several dishes where raw meat is commonly eaten - think of oysters, steak tartare ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare ) and sushi.

No offense meant to all vegetarians out there, but based on our anatomy we need high protein in order to be healthy and can function well in our routines. Lack of protein in our body makes us weak and some other factors that can cause for a real serious health problems. Ever seen House MD tv series? Dr. House there called vegetarians as fools!

Not all human were created meant to be vegetarians, it all depend on your place of birth, availability of food sources, level of physical requirement on nutrients, your belief system and personal choice. Just like the animals kingdom, some of them are carnivores, while other are herbivores and in between. If you can not eat meat due to various reasons, then you shouldn't try to force yourself to become a non vegetarian at all, it is perfectly alright to be a vegetarian for any person, it will cause no harm to your health.

I'm a vegetarian personally, and I do believe that the healthiest diet is one that ingests lots of "raw" foods. I believe the traditional Japanese diet is a pretty good example of this, lots of foods in this diet are eaten raw, though there is some meat and fish included. I don't think everyone is meant to be a vegetarian, and I don't necessarily think cooking food is bad. Cooking is good in lots of ways because it kills bacteria and other nasty things that live in our food before we eat it, but it also kills a portion of the nutritional value.

You know, I often think that same thing myself. I actually think e were meant to be vegetarians. After all, they say eating meat is bad for us anyway. I think vegetables are awesome. Now I am not saying I like every single one of them but I do like a lot of them.

There is a cycle to life, like small animal eats tiny insects, big animal eats small animals and bigger animals eat big animals. But I am a vegetarian myself. I do not think I should kill other living things and eat them. That is in our culture. But do you realize if everyone in the world became a vegetarian then there would not be enough vegetables to feed them all and we would all starve? And another thing would be that there would be an over-population of animals that are currently being consumed by humans. And those animals eat vegetarian diets too, like cows have to eat grass, chicken eat grains, etc. So in a way, the cycle is balanced right now. Eating things raw puts great limitations in our diet, just fruits and vegetables, but that is the healthiest diet a human can have. But I do not think humans were all meant to be vegetarians.

men having been cooking meat since they discovered fire as cavemen. We were meant to eat of the land, animals are of the land as well. I think we learned to eat meat cooked with the coming of fire but had fire never been invented we would be eating raw meat like the animals.

No, I don't think that humans were supposed to be a vegetarian, and you can't get all of the vitamins and minerals from the things that you eat unless you eat meat. I know that you can buy supplements and things like that, but they're not natural, so that wasn't what humans were built to eat. I know a lot of people think that it is cruel to eat meat, but we have been like this for millions of years, so that is just what our bodies need to be able to survive. Maybe things will change in the future, but I can't see that this is going to be the case in the immediate future.

I could not do that! I know before the invention of fire humans ate raw meat! I wouldn't want to do that because the worry of making myself sick! If we all became vegatarians we would be over run by animals we eat and hunt for! I know I am a little bit off the subject but that is the way I think about about this suject! Not everyone is meant to be a vegatarian!

I prefer to have vegetarian food when I am in my home. I could say that vegetarian food is slightly a step ahead that non vegetarian. Moreover, each type of food have its own advantages and disadvantages. When I am standing at the hostel or any other, along with veg I also prefer non vegetarian. For a better health both of these is essential

Hi Suebee, SOME people would be healthy if they were vegetarians. Different diets work well for different people. Blood type O individuals thrive on animal protein because their ancestors are native americans and that's what they ate. A blood type A person might do very well on a vegetarian food program. Blood types B and AB need a balance of both. I was on a raw food diet for 6 weeks. This was before I learned about blood types. I lost 13 lbs. without a lot of excercise during that 6 weeks. I believe most of my weight loss was water because a raw food diet is low sodium. The enzymes in the raw food were good but I was constantly tired. I now see a raw food diet as a temporary idea.