We have neighbours with twins aged 7 who raise their kids at home on a raw food diet. They eat lots of nuts, fresh fruit, fermented beans and garden vegetables.

We have neighbours with twins aged 7 who raise their kids at home on a raw food diet. They eat lots of nuts, fresh fruit, fermented beans and garden vegetables. They conserve vegetables and fruit using lacto-fermentation. The kids are much smaller and thinner than normal kids their age. Up until recently I used to pity these poor, starving kids. I compared them to our kids, who are athletic, tanned, well built. But recently I started asking myself if this is not the other way around. Maybe if we didn't have the luxury of cooking, transformed food and western supermarkets we'd have been much smaller. Maybe this means that we all in the 1st world eat too much. I'm starting to think that maybe we're not really better off having our stomachs full basically the whole day long, especially if you consider that most of us do very little physical activity if at all...