DIE DIE DIE!!!
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I know this is off topic, but the idea of "shoving a double espresso up your ***" reminds me of beer chicken.
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Paleo.
Just.... everything Paleo.
Bull**** you are eating like Paleolithic man.
Paleolithic man did not have Whole Foods. He did not have New York strips or non-GMO raw salads or raw, vegan, berry cheesecakes.
Our meat is not his meat. Our vegetables are not his vegetables. You are following a fad diet espoused largely, if not exclusively, by the ignorant, pretentious, and CrossFit-addled minds of the fitness world.
Now kindly take your grain and legume-free dinner, and choke on it.0 -
Paleo.
Just.... everything Paleo.
Bull**** you are eating like Paleolithic man.
Paleolithic man did not have Whole Foods. He did not have New York strips or non-GMO raw salads or raw, vegan, berry cheesecakes.
Our meat is not his meat. Our vegetables are not his vegetables. You are following a fad diet espoused largely, if not exclusively, by the ignorant, pretentious, and CrossFit-addled minds of the fitness world.
Now kindly take your grain and legume-free dinner, and choke on it.
It is said that poop is the perfect evidence. If it is ingested then you can find it there. Recently there was very well preserved fecal matter found from neanderthal and in that glorious morning cake was found traces of phytosterol, a cholesterol like compound that is produced in plants and only in plants.
"Gram for gram, there’s more cholesterol in meat than there is phytosterol in plants, so it would take a significant plant intake to produce even a small amount of metabolized phytosterol.." [Citation http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/did-neanderthals-eat-their-vegetables-0625]
Grain was consumed by our ancestors, it was traded, used for payment and in the end is responsible for the human condition evolving past throwing rocks at pygmy deer in an attempt to catch dinner. It's cultivation gave rise to empires, allowed longer lifespans, larger frames, sharper minds. Eat your paleo if you want, not my problem, but do it knowing the facts.0 -
this one must die Die DIE!....Lemon water is not water...only water is water.0
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Paleo.
Just.... everything Paleo.
Bull**** you are eating like Paleolithic man.
Paleolithic man did not have Whole Foods. He did not have New York strips or non-GMO raw salads or raw, vegan, berry cheesecakes.
Our meat is not his meat. Our vegetables are not his vegetables. You are following a fad diet espoused largely, if not exclusively, by the ignorant, pretentious, and CrossFit-addled minds of the fitness world.
Now kindly take your grain and legume-free dinner, and choke on it.
It is said that poop is the perfect evidence. If it is ingested then you can find it there. Recently there was very well preserved fecal matter found from neanderthal and in that glorious morning cake was found traces of phytosterol, a cholesterol like compound that is produced in plants and only in plants.
"Gram for gram, there’s more cholesterol in meat than there is phytosterol in plants, so it would take a significant plant intake to produce even a small amount of metabolized phytosterol.." [Citation http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/did-neanderthals-eat-their-vegetables-0625]
Grain was consumed by our ancestors, it was traded, used for payment and in the end is responsible for the human condition evolving past throwing rocks at pygmy deer in an attempt to catch dinner. It's cultivation gave rise to empires, allowed longer lifespans, larger frames, sharper minds. Eat your paleo if you want, not my problem, but do it knowing the facts.
I love you and every steaming pile of evidence you provide.0 -
I like this thread very much. Paleo, water is water, and cleanses, not so much.0
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if I lift anything heavier than these tiny pink dumbbells, I'm going to suddenly sprout muscles and look like Arnold Schwarzeneger.
actually, this isn't a fitness myth I wish would die... I wish it was true.... I wish it really was that easy to get big muscles!!0 -
What are the top fitness/nutrition myths you would like to straight up murder?
Mine:
1. Spot reduction/toning
2. Carbs are bad and evil like satan
3. Cleanse/detox. My favourite is the coffee enema because we all know shoving a double espresso up your *kitten* will totally clean your liver.
1. You took the carbs one so I'm going to say "Dr. Oz"... Anything about him really... Stick your head in the sand and do not listen, you're probably better off.
2. Any short term fix is long term fix/ E.g. People going on 4 week cabbage soup diets and expecting the results to stay with them, seeing the short term fix as the holy grail.
3. Unproven learned societal helplessness; "I can't lose weight. It's my metabolism."0 -
I heard my boss (and bear in mind we help people who want to make some lifestyle changes and start down the losing weight/get fitter road, so she really should know better) tell a client that if she stopped exercising 'her muscle would turn to fat'! What?? Um....no!!
Omg, this one.
One of my collegues was telling me the other day the reason she won't lift anything above a 1kg dumbell is because she doesn't want her muscle to turn to fat if she stops.....she's an educated woman, surely people know cells don't morph into other types of cells...
The other one for me is "bad foods". What is a bad food? One that's been on an immoral drinking, drugs and sex spree across the country for several months? :huh:
Oh, and ofc VLCD. *hnnnnng*0 -
cleanse detox pisses me off to no end ...
the anti carb people irritate me
the anti any particular food people actually irritate me -
except the anti "new" conversation hearts people ... those people are totally spot on .. what was necco thinking...0 -
^this. "Muscle weighs more than fat" implies unitary equivalence. Do cars weigh more than children? NO BECAUSE 1KG OF CARS WEIGHS THE SAME AS 1KG OF CHILDREN!
Crying laughing at this :laugh:0 -
Paleo.
Just.... everything Paleo.
Bull**** you are eating like Paleolithic man.
Paleolithic man did not have Whole Foods. He did not have New York strips or non-GMO raw salads or raw, vegan, berry cheesecakes.
Our meat is not his meat. Our vegetables are not his vegetables. You are following a fad diet espoused largely, if not exclusively, by the ignorant, pretentious, and CrossFit-addled minds of the fitness world.
Now kindly take your grain and legume-free dinner, and choke on it.
It is said that poop is the perfect evidence. If it is ingested then you can find it there. Recently there was very well preserved fecal matter found from neanderthal and in that glorious morning cake was found traces of phytosterol, a cholesterol like compound that is produced in plants and only in plants.
"Gram for gram, there’s more cholesterol in meat than there is phytosterol in plants, so it would take a significant plant intake to produce even a small amount of metabolized phytosterol.." [Citation http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/did-neanderthals-eat-their-vegetables-0625]
Grain was consumed by our ancestors, it was traded, used for payment and in the end is responsible for the human condition evolving past throwing rocks at pygmy deer in an attempt to catch dinner. It's cultivation gave rise to empires, allowed longer lifespans, larger frames, sharper minds. Eat your paleo if you want, not my problem, but do it knowing the facts.
mostly true...... but agriculture lead to people becoming smaller framed, not larger framed. (if by frame size you mean postcranial robusticity, which is the nearest scientific equivalent: large framed = robust postcranial skeleton; small framed = gracile postcranial skeleton)
Palaeolithic Homo sapiens sapiens (aka. cro magnon man) was large framed and robust by today's standards. And cro magnons were small framed compared to neanderthals. Modern people are, on average, smaller framed than palaeolithic Homo sapiens sapiens, because agriculture, and to some extent upper palaeolithic hunting methods, meant people didn't rely on brute strength so much. Neanderthals hunted huge mammals like bison, woolly rhino and mammoths with only thrusting spears. That said, their frame size still overlaps with the high end of modern human frame size - modern humans have much more variation in that, as in small framed neanderthals didn't survive ice age winters (large framed people withstand the cold better) and didn't have the strength to hunt that way... but in modern people frame size no longer determines whether or not you survive... in post-agricultural populations large framed people would have made better warriors but small framed people survived too and probably specialised in other things (e.g. crafts/trades) and the higher level of technology meant people withstood cold weather and didn't need brute force to get food. And because average is the middle value, there are people today whose frame size is way smaller than palaeolithic Homo sapiens sapiens, and the average is smaller than the average for cro-magnons. And as Homo sapiens sapiens is the smallest framed of all species of human, it's clear that frame size has become significantly smaller since agriculture was invented. (albeit with a lot more variation)
the new evidence from neanderthal poop is interesting - but I don't know why people are saying this is the first evidence for plant eating in neanderthals (as some are, I know you didn't say that - I read it somewhere else) - previous evidence from their teeth also showed they ate plants as well as animals, and i've even seen a scientific paper discussing the consumption of root storage organs by neanderthals (i.e. roots tubers, like the European/Asian pleistocene equivalent of potatoes and carrots (but not actual potatoes (they're from the new world), although it could have included the ancestors of carrots)) - sources of carbohydrate would have been scarce in winter in the climate and area they lived in; these kinds of root storage veggies would have been a valued source of carbohydrate, and obtainable with middle palaeolithic technology (e.g. by using a digging stick of some sort). Also I think the amount of vegetables consumed by neanderthals would vary with geographic, seasonal and climatic conditions. I haven't seen the poop paper yet but I think it would be significant whether it dates to a glacial or interglacial period. Vegetable foods would have been a lot more available in interglacial periods.
sorry for the ramble... I'm a science nerd and this is my favourite topic in the whole of science (i.e. neanderthals/middle palaeolithic era, not poop lol)0 -
Paleo.
Just.... everything Paleo.
Bull**** you are eating like Paleolithic man.
Paleolithic man did not have Whole Foods. He did not have New York strips or non-GMO raw salads or raw, vegan, berry cheesecakes.
Our meat is not his meat. Our vegetables are not his vegetables. You are following a fad diet espoused largely, if not exclusively, by the ignorant, pretentious, and CrossFit-addled minds of the fitness world.
Now kindly take your grain and legume-free dinner, and choke on it.
Our cafeteria at work decided a month ago to go paleo...0 -
I heard my boss (and bear in mind we help people who want to make some lifestyle changes and start down the losing weight/get fitter road, so she really should know better) tell a client that if she stopped exercising 'her muscle would turn to fat'! What?? Um....no!!
Omg, this one.
One of my collegues was telling me the other day the reason she won't lift anything above a 1kg dumbell is because she doesn't want her muscle to turn to fat if she stops.....she's an educated woman, surely people know cells don't morph into other types of cells...
The other one for me is "bad foods". What is a bad food? One that's been on an immoral drinking, drugs and sex spree across the country for several months? :huh:
Oh, and ofc VLCD. *hnnnnng*
^^^ all of this! and LOL @ bad foods. Hannibal Lecter is bad food. He eats other people and he's a person so that makes him bad food :laugh:
the origin of the "muscle turns to fat" myth comes from athletic people who stop sport but carry on eating the same number of calories that they did when training............. I personally did this which is why I was obese within a couple of years of qutting ice hockey... my bad!! but none of my muscle turned to fat, I just developed a thick layer of fat over them due to eating enough calories to sustain 4x a week training plus games at the weekend while not doing any exercise lol.0 -
Paleo.
Just.... everything Paleo.
Bull**** you are eating like Paleolithic man.
Paleolithic man did not have Whole Foods. He did not have New York strips or non-GMO raw salads or raw, vegan, berry cheesecakes.
Our meat is not his meat. Our vegetables are not his vegetables. You are following a fad diet espoused largely, if not exclusively, by the ignorant, pretentious, and CrossFit-addled minds of the fitness world.
Now kindly take your grain and legume-free dinner, and choke on it.
Our cafeteria at work decided a month ago to go paleo...
that is just asking for jokes about Homo erectus people going to the cafeteria at work. :laugh:0 -
fat turning into muscle... as if a dog can turn into a cat... -_-0
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People who log every minuscule activity as exercise (i.e. cleaning, sex, standing, breathing) ... then eat back their 'exercise calories' - these activities are not exercise and didn't stop you getting fat in the first place!!!0
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when people say "carbs are not an essential nutrient" to imply that "carbs are not important and you can (in fact, should, if you care about health) survive without them" - that's not what it means. And carbs are important, and your goal should be optimal health and optimal functioning, not mere survival!!
ditto all similar excuses for following a diet that's restrictive to the point of unhealthy.... it comes down to the same thing, someone points out the nutritional imbalance in the diet and the reply is along the lines of "my diet won't kill me" ....... like great! that's your criteria for a healthy diet, that it won't kill you? I mean, don't people have higher standards than that? Spending all day every day locked in a broom cupboard with daily meals of gruel and water won't kill me...... but I'd like to get a lot more out of life than simply "not dying".......0 -
mostly true...... but agriculture lead to people becoming smaller framed, not larger framed. (if by frame size you mean postcranial robusticity, which is the nearest scientific equivalent: large framed = robust postcranial skeleton; small framed = gracile postcranial skeleton)
Palaeolithic Homo sapiens sapiens (aka. cro magnon man) was large framed and robust by today's standards. And cro magnons were small framed compared to neanderthals. Modern people are, on average, smaller framed than palaeolithic Homo sapiens sapiens, because agriculture, and to some extent upper palaeolithic hunting methods, meant people didn't rely on brute strength so much. Neanderthals hunted huge mammals like bison, woolly rhino and mammoths with only thrusting spears. That said, their frame size still overlaps with the high end of modern human frame size - modern humans have much more variation in that, as in small framed neanderthals didn't survive ice age winters (large framed people withstand the cold better) and didn't have the strength to hunt that way... but in modern people frame size no longer determines whether or not you survive... in post-agricultural populations large framed people would have made better warriors but small framed people survived too and probably specialised in other things (e.g. crafts/trades) and the higher level of technology meant people withstood cold weather and didn't need brute force to get food. And because average is the middle value, there are people today whose frame size is way smaller than palaeolithic Homo sapiens sapiens, and the average is smaller than the average for cro-magnons. And as Homo sapiens sapiens is the smallest framed of all species of human, it's clear that frame size has become significantly smaller since agriculture was invented. (albeit with a lot more variation)
the new evidence from neanderthal poop is interesting - but I don't know why people are saying this is the first evidence for plant eating in neanderthals (as some are, I know you didn't say that - I read it somewhere else) - previous evidence from their teeth also showed they ate plants as well as animals, and i've even seen a scientific paper discussing the consumption of root storage organs by neanderthals (i.e. roots tubers, like the European/Asian pleistocene equivalent of potatoes and carrots (but not actual potatoes (they're from the new world), although it could have included the ancestors of carrots)) - sources of carbohydrate would have been scarce in winter in the climate and area they lived in; these kinds of root storage veggies would have been a valued source of carbohydrate, and obtainable with middle palaeolithic technology (e.g. by using a digging stick of some sort). Also I think the amount of vegetables consumed by neanderthals would vary with geographic, seasonal and climatic conditions. I haven't seen the poop paper yet but I think it would be significant whether it dates to a glacial or interglacial period. Vegetable foods would have been a lot more available in interglacial periods.
sorry for the ramble... I'm a science nerd and this is my favourite topic in the whole of science (i.e. neanderthals/middle palaeolithic era, not poop lol)
:flowerforyou:
I don't have time to respond to this, but I will say that you are 100% correct and thank you for taking the moment to type all that out. The period I was more referencing was the expansion of homo-erectus into other climates, at which point we were smaller for the most part, depending on climate and local circumstances. Of course, my knowledge on the matter could very well be dated and wrong and if it is I will find out tonight when I look it up!
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1. there's something magical about drinking water with lemon & cayenne in it, that will make you drop weight 5X faster than regular water
2. by going gluten free you will lose weight, no matter how much you eat
3. running is the ONE & ONLY way to improve fitness0 -
What happened to number 4?
It was removed from the space/time continuum.0 -
mostly true...... but agriculture lead to people becoming smaller framed, not larger framed. (if by frame size you mean postcranial robusticity, which is the nearest scientific equivalent: large framed = robust postcranial skeleton; small framed = gracile postcranial skeleton)
Palaeolithic Homo sapiens sapiens (aka. cro magnon man) was large framed and robust by today's standards. And cro magnons were small framed compared to neanderthals. Modern people are, on average, smaller framed than palaeolithic Homo sapiens sapiens, because agriculture, and to some extent upper palaeolithic hunting methods, meant people didn't rely on brute strength so much. Neanderthals hunted huge mammals like bison, woolly rhino and mammoths with only thrusting spears. That said, their frame size still overlaps with the high end of modern human frame size - modern humans have much more variation in that, as in small framed neanderthals didn't survive ice age winters (large framed people withstand the cold better) and didn't have the strength to hunt that way... but in modern people frame size no longer determines whether or not you survive... in post-agricultural populations large framed people would have made better warriors but small framed people survived too and probably specialised in other things (e.g. crafts/trades) and the higher level of technology meant people withstood cold weather and didn't need brute force to get food. And because average is the middle value, there are people today whose frame size is way smaller than palaeolithic Homo sapiens sapiens, and the average is smaller than the average for cro-magnons. And as Homo sapiens sapiens is the smallest framed of all species of human, it's clear that frame size has become significantly smaller since agriculture was invented. (albeit with a lot more variation)
the new evidence from neanderthal poop is interesting - but I don't know why people are saying this is the first evidence for plant eating in neanderthals (as some are, I know you didn't say that - I read it somewhere else) - previous evidence from their teeth also showed they ate plants as well as animals, and i've even seen a scientific paper discussing the consumption of root storage organs by neanderthals (i.e. roots tubers, like the European/Asian pleistocene equivalent of potatoes and carrots (but not actual potatoes (they're from the new world), although it could have included the ancestors of carrots)) - sources of carbohydrate would have been scarce in winter in the climate and area they lived in; these kinds of root storage veggies would have been a valued source of carbohydrate, and obtainable with middle palaeolithic technology (e.g. by using a digging stick of some sort). Also I think the amount of vegetables consumed by neanderthals would vary with geographic, seasonal and climatic conditions. I haven't seen the poop paper yet but I think it would be significant whether it dates to a glacial or interglacial period. Vegetable foods would have been a lot more available in interglacial periods.
sorry for the ramble... I'm a science nerd and this is my favourite topic in the whole of science (i.e. neanderthals/middle palaeolithic era, not poop lol)
:flowerforyou:
I don't have time to respond to this, but I will say that you are 100% correct and thank you for taking the moment to type all that out. The period I was more referencing was the expansion of homo-erectus into other climates, at which point we were smaller for the most part, depending on climate and local circumstances. Of course, my knowledge on the matter could very well be dated and wrong and if it is I will find out tonight when I look it up!
Homo erectus didn't cultivate grains though... your post seemed to be saying that cultivation of grains led to an increase in robusticity. (apologies if I misunderstood) Grains were not cultivated until around 10,000 years ago - the absolute latest date for H. erectus I think is more like 100,000 years ago.... I can't remember the exact date but all other human species besides H. sapiens sapiens were already extinct before any grain cultivation started.
Going through the lower and middle palaeolithic era, human frame size/robusticity was increasing steadily along with brain size, but the likely evolutionary driving force for this would have been hunting bigger and bigger animals. In particular, the increase in skull thickness was probably due to the increasing risk of head injury from hunting. Larger brain size = greater ability to co-operate and use strategy for hunting and developing better weapons (better hunting weapons and more sophisticated stone tools appear in the fossil record alongside this). Only in the upper palaeolithic with Homo sapiens did frame sizes start to get smaller - this is likely due to the use of projectile weapons, which require less brute strength and more skill and accuracy, and also greatly reduce the risk of injury to the hunter. This is likely what gave cro-magnons their advantage over the neanderthals. Neanderthals never adopted projectile weapons technology (although the very latest of them did start eating fish, which probably was learned from Homo sapiens, as Homo sapiens were known to have eaten a lot of fish long before they got anywhere near Europe)........ anyway, it is correct that frame sizes got bigger throughout human evolution, but then Homo sapiens went against that trend. And since the start of agriculture, Homo sapiens frame sizes became even smaller (on average... although like I said there's lots of variation and also quite a lot of archaic genes knocking around the gene pool, e.g. neanderthal, denisovan, and probably more yet to be discovered)
It's a really interesting question from an evolutionary perspective. I really think that projectile weapons hunting was a major advantage that our species had over other human species. And if you compare Homo sapiens anatomy to neanderthal anatomy, Homo sapiens seems to have been built for overarm throwing and running, while neanderthals were built for brute strength, in particular with a really strong grip and strong legs. In fact if you were to redesign human anatomy for optimal deadlifting, what you'd get is something pretty close to neanderthal anatomy. Homo sapiens on the other hand had favourable limb proportions for running and a greater range of motion in the shoulders, and narrower hips and proportionally wider shoulders, i.e. built for running and throwing spears.
Anyway, I'm quite happy to type plenty on this subject lol... it's my favourite topic in science and I can type at 90 words per minute.0 -
I'm sure these have all been said, but...
1. Evil carbs/sugarz/wheatz/artificial sweeteners
2. Gaining muscle in a calorie deficit
3. Extreme diets (Military Cleanse, 21-day, ketosis, etc) that promote rapid weight loss and yo-yo dieting
4. People wearing HRMs when they're not doing steady state cardio and wanting to know why they can't log washing their dog as 6600 calories.
5. "Clean eating"--I washed my food as best I could, why do you keep calling it dirty? :frown:
6. 1200 calories. I repeat: 1200 calories.
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if I lift anything heavier than these tiny pink dumbbells, I'm going to suddenly sprout muscles and look like Arnold Schwarzeneger.
actually, this isn't a fitness myth I wish would die... I wish it was true.... I wish it really was that easy to get big muscles!!
I know. SIGN ME UP!0 -
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mostly true...... but agriculture lead to people becoming smaller framed, not larger framed. (if by frame size you mean postcranial robusticity, which is the nearest scientific equivalent: large framed = robust postcranial skeleton; small framed = gracile postcranial skeleton)
Palaeolithic Homo sapiens sapiens (aka. cro magnon man) was large framed and robust by today's standards. And cro magnons were small framed compared to neanderthals. Modern people are, on average, smaller framed than palaeolithic Homo sapiens sapiens, because agriculture, and to some extent upper palaeolithic hunting methods, meant people didn't rely on brute strength so much. Neanderthals hunted huge mammals like bison, woolly rhino and mammoths with only thrusting spears. That said, their frame size still overlaps with the high end of modern human frame size - modern humans have much more variation in that, as in small framed neanderthals didn't survive ice age winters (large framed people withstand the cold better) and didn't have the strength to hunt that way... but in modern people frame size no longer determines whether or not you survive... in post-agricultural populations large framed people would have made better warriors but small framed people survived too and probably specialised in other things (e.g. crafts/trades) and the higher level of technology meant people withstood cold weather and didn't need brute force to get food. And because average is the middle value, there are people today whose frame size is way smaller than palaeolithic Homo sapiens sapiens, and the average is smaller than the average for cro-magnons. And as Homo sapiens sapiens is the smallest framed of all species of human, it's clear that frame size has become significantly smaller since agriculture was invented. (albeit with a lot more variation)
the new evidence from neanderthal poop is interesting - but I don't know why people are saying this is the first evidence for plant eating in neanderthals (as some are, I know you didn't say that - I read it somewhere else) - previous evidence from their teeth also showed they ate plants as well as animals, and i've even seen a scientific paper discussing the consumption of root storage organs by neanderthals (i.e. roots tubers, like the European/Asian pleistocene equivalent of potatoes and carrots (but not actual potatoes (they're from the new world), although it could have included the ancestors of carrots)) - sources of carbohydrate would have been scarce in winter in the climate and area they lived in; these kinds of root storage veggies would have been a valued source of carbohydrate, and obtainable with middle palaeolithic technology (e.g. by using a digging stick of some sort). Also I think the amount of vegetables consumed by neanderthals would vary with geographic, seasonal and climatic conditions. I haven't seen the poop paper yet but I think it would be significant whether it dates to a glacial or interglacial period. Vegetable foods would have been a lot more available in interglacial periods.
sorry for the ramble... I'm a science nerd and this is my favourite topic in the whole of science (i.e. neanderthals/middle palaeolithic era, not poop lol)
:flowerforyou:
I don't have time to respond to this, but I will say that you are 100% correct and thank you for taking the moment to type all that out. The period I was more referencing was the expansion of homo-erectus into other climates, at which point we were smaller for the most part, depending on climate and local circumstances. Of course, my knowledge on the matter could very well be dated and wrong and if it is I will find out tonight when I look it up!
Homo erectus didn't cultivate grains though... your post seemed to be saying that cultivation of grains led to an increase in robusticity. (apologies if I misunderstood) Grains were not cultivated until around 10,000 years ago - the absolute latest date for H. erectus I think is more like 100,000 years ago.... I can't remember the exact date but all other human species besides H. sapiens sapiens were already extinct before any grain cultivation started.
Going through the lower and middle palaeolithic era, human frame size/robusticity was increasing steadily along with brain size, but the likely evolutionary driving force for this would have been hunting bigger and bigger animals. In particular, the increase in skull thickness was probably due to the increasing risk of head injury from hunting. Larger brain size = greater ability to co-operate and use strategy for hunting and developing better weapons (better hunting weapons and more sophisticated stone tools appear in the fossil record alongside this). Only in the upper palaeolithic with Homo sapiens did frame sizes start to get smaller - this is likely due to the use of projectile weapons, which require less brute strength and more skill and accuracy, and also greatly reduce the risk of injury to the hunter. This is likely what gave cro-magnons their advantage over the neanderthals. Neanderthals never adopted projectile weapons technology (although the very latest of them did start eating fish, which probably was learned from Homo sapiens, as Homo sapiens were known to have eaten a lot of fish long before they got anywhere near Europe)........ anyway, it is correct that frame sizes got bigger throughout human evolution, but then Homo sapiens went against that trend. And since the start of agriculture, Homo sapiens frame sizes became even smaller (on average... although like I said there's lots of variation and also quite a lot of archaic genes knocking around the gene pool, e.g. neanderthal, denisovan, and probably more yet to be discovered)
It's a really interesting question from an evolutionary perspective. I really think that projectile weapons hunting was a major advantage that our species had over other human species. And if you compare Homo sapiens anatomy to neanderthal anatomy, Homo sapiens seems to have been built for overarm throwing and running, while neanderthals were built for brute strength, in particular with a really strong grip and strong legs. In fact if you were to redesign human anatomy for optimal deadlifting, what you'd get is something pretty close to neanderthal anatomy. Homo sapiens on the other hand had favourable limb proportions for running and a greater range of motion in the shoulders, and narrower hips and proportionally wider shoulders, i.e. built for running and throwing spears.
Anyway, I'm quite happy to type plenty on this subject lol... it's my favourite topic in science and I can type at 90 words per minute.
erectus *giggle*
Neandermagon tends to reduce most of us to this. Because...I mean...what else can you add?0 -
Paleo.
Just.... everything Paleo.
Bull**** you are eating like Paleolithic man.
Paleolithic man did not have Whole Foods. He did not have New York strips or non-GMO raw salads or raw, vegan, berry cheesecakes.
Our meat is not his meat. Our vegetables are not his vegetables. You are following a fad diet espoused largely, if not exclusively, by the ignorant, pretentious, and CrossFit-addled minds of the fitness world.
Now kindly take your grain and legume-free dinner, and choke on it.
Our cafeteria at work decided a month ago to go paleo...
Start asking for grubs.0 -
No eating after 8p.m.
Calories can't tell time.
It isn't about telling time... it is about how your body processes those calories in your sleep.. The 8pm thing is just a rule of thumb based on when MOST people go to bed. Obviously if you work a swing or night shift, or just stay up until 1 am and wake up at 9 or 10, that rule doesn't apply to you...0 -
When people say that muscle weighs more than fat.
NO, IT DOESN'T!!!! 1kg of muscle weighs EXACTLY THE SAME as 1kg of fat, it's the surface area that is the difference!!!! BAH!
When people say that I feel like it's more an error in phrasing than an actual myth. The thought behind it is right, it's just worded in a nonsensical manner.
Agreed. I think that everyone understands this but just likes to argue about it.
I was about to add "This is why we can't have nice things."0
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