by Hot_Pink_Urinal_Mint » Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:06 pm
kungfufighter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 1:21 pm
What about the Jains? Or don't they count?
Your premise of needing animal fats for higher order thinking us just do much guff. Post a study, why don't you?
Jains are/were vegetarians and most probably ate dairy due to the treatment of cows in India.
It's widely known (or at least I thought it was
) that meat eating was part of human evolution.
Human ancestors who roamed the dry and open savannas of Africa about 2 million years ago routinely began to include meat in their diets to compensate for a serious decline in the quality of plant foods, according to a physical anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley.
It was this new meat diet, full of densely-packed nutrients, that provided the catalyst for human evolution, particularly the growth of the brain, said Katharine Milton, an authority on primate diet.
Without meat, said Milton, it's unlikely that proto humans could have secured enough energy and nutrition from the plants available in their African environment at that time to evolve into the active, sociable, intelligent creatures they became.
Milton argues that meat supplied early humans not only with all the essential amino acids, but also with many vitamins, minerals and other nutrients they required, allowing them to exploit marginal, low quality plant foods, like roots - foods that have few nutrients but lots of calories.
These calories, or energy, fueled the expansion of the human brain and, in addition, permitted human ancestors to increase in body size while remaining active and social.
https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/rel ... 1999a.html
Survival of the fattest: fat babies were the key to evolution of the large human brain.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14527626
There's this article also,
Meat is Brain Food
Clinical research finds that people on vegan diets commonly suffer from a variety of nutritional deficiencies. One study, for instance, showed that more than half of vegans tested were deficient in vitamin B12, putting them at risk of mental health problems such as fatigue, poor concentration, decreased brain volume with aging and irreversible nerve damage.
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2 ... brain-food
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What about the Jains? Or don't they count?
Your premise of needing animal fats for higher order thinking us just do much guff. Post a study, why don't you?
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Jains are/were vegetarians and most probably ate dairy due to the treatment of cows in India.
It's widely known (or at least I thought it was :roll: ) that meat eating was part of human evolution.
[quote]Human ancestors who roamed the dry and open savannas of Africa about 2 million years ago routinely began to include meat in their diets to compensate for a serious decline in the quality of plant foods, according to a physical anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley.
It was this new meat diet, full of densely-packed nutrients, that provided the catalyst for human evolution, particularly the growth of the brain, said Katharine Milton, an authority on primate diet.
Without meat, said Milton, it's unlikely that proto humans could have secured enough energy and nutrition from the plants available in their African environment at that time to evolve into the active, sociable, intelligent creatures they became. [/quote]
[quote]
Milton argues that meat supplied early humans not only with all the essential amino acids, but also with many vitamins, minerals and other nutrients they required, allowing them to exploit marginal, low quality plant foods, like roots - foods that have few nutrients but lots of calories.
These calories, or energy, fueled the expansion of the human brain and, in addition, permitted human ancestors to increase in body size while remaining active and social.[/quote]
https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/6-14-1999a.html
Survival of the fattest: fat babies were the key to evolution of the large human brain.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14527626
There's this article also, [i]Meat is Brain Food[/i]
[quote] Clinical research finds that people on vegan diets commonly suffer from a variety of nutritional deficiencies. One study, for instance, showed that more than half of vegans tested were deficient in vitamin B12, putting them at risk of mental health problems such as fatigue, poor concentration, decreased brain volume with aging and irreversible nerve damage.
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https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/04/17/is-veganism-good-for-everyone/meat-is-brain-food