h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Too much bran is definitely bad. It can create stone-like lumps in your intestines and hinder the intestines from using what food you take in

I'm with you on that, Prof. Variety is good for you. My mother grew up in a house where no foods were repeated from one meal to the next.
This was designed to get the most variety from one's diet.

For years, I was told that I had high cholesterol, and should go very easy on eggs and nuts. Now they're saying that nuts have valuable oils in them. I've eaten nuts and eggs all along, but not in large amounts.

There's a movement to replicate the Stone Age diet, on the grounds that this is what we're genetically programmed to do best with. This means eating things that one might find in the woods and fields: bird eggs, berries in season, small animals, mushrooms (though not the poisonous kinds), and edible greens that one might pick from the forest floor or field. Fresh fish from the rivers would also be good. And, since animals are rarely easy to catch, you would make the most of having caught one, eating not just the meat, but also the heart, liver, and other organs, where a lot of the best vitamins are lurking. Stone Age men didn't know about vitamins, but we do. There are valuable vitamins even in butter and egg yolks and animal fat. Likewise, fermented foods can be very nutritious, though I wouldn't go so far as to eat Japanese fermented soybeans, which is called Natto. It has tons of Vitamin K2, but it's smells like ammonia .

The stone age diet also calls for roasting one's meat over an open fire until well done, since that kills parasites and the excess fat melts and drips out onto the fire rather contributing to arterial plaques.

As a matter of fact, the evolutionary adaptation of our ancient ancestors to meat prepared this way may be precisely the reason for the reduced toleration of modern humanity to fatty foods.

Paulh, here are some photos that might amuse you.

http://flavorwire.com/211231/vintage-pictures-of-us-cities-and-landmarks-—-with-zombies#1


I believe there is one with Boston in it.

Hmmm now - what was I doing in Boston?

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Here there be Bostonians