Message #25689

[mccoy]

Steve, I've been reading a lot nutrition topics recently. This and problems in family have me kept pretty busy. Mental illness is a bad beast and one of the best achievements of Satan.

On the nutrition standpoint, the role of fruit and vegetables is clear. The primates eat fruit, foliage, tender sprouts, nuts, some insects and occasionally meat. The early hominids had a similar diet, adding tubers and roots, wild plants, legumes and cereals, honey. Very occasionally meat. Meat became prevalent only in some specific times and areas. Our system is built to digest everything but optimal health is achieved only when we eat what we've been eating for the most of 8 million years (from the start of primates evolution). This is also what implies Sri yukteswar in his holy science.

Also, A very interesting model which came out from my studies: primates & hominids evolved in symbiosis with plants, feeding on plant-based food. This has caused our need for particular hormetic and xenohormetic pthytochemicals, those toxins produced by plants which trigger in our body genetic expressions and metabolic mechanisms which prevent cancer and degenerative disease. In a few words, if we want to fight most diseases, we need or we are helped by specific phytochemicals.

These phytochemicals are abundant in plant-based foods, wild plants & berries, and many spices. I'm currently on prevention mode, on what I call an hormetic-xenohormetic diet (HXH diet, acronym I'm using).