2 ms·
Sorry, but lentils are pretty much the closest thing to a single food that meets all of a human's nutritional needs in existence. If you pair lentils with a sm
by CuriouslyC 4y ago
Sorry, but lentils are pretty much the closest thing to a single food that meets all of a human's nutritional needs in existence. If you pair lentils with a small amount of spinach and eggs that gets you there.
Your comments about what "people" were designed to eat also sounds pretty ignorant, since we're not genetically homogenous for starters. Most humans of European descent have evolved for seasonal carbohydrate consumption, which is why they make you fat in excess (good luck surviving a hard winter lean). The only people who really shouldn't be eating carbs are indigenous people from very cold areas with a primarily marine diet. There are pockets of indigenous Americans from desert regions who don't do fantastically with carbs either, but those people mostly have issues with a caloric surplus in general.
Seaweed is a better food (and habitat) for fish than humans. We should create artificial reefs and forests to feed fish, then sustainably harvest fish from those manmade "farms".
- gruez 4y ago>Your comments about what "people" were designed to eat also sounds pretty ignorant, since we're not genetically homogenous for starters. ... Source for this? I don't doubt that there are groups with genetic adaptations to food (eg. genes for lactase persistence), but I'm not aware of anything for carbs.
- CuriouslyC 4y agoIt's not about a specific gene that says "you can/can't digest carbs" rather it's many variants of metabolic genes that dictate what hormones get triggered and what pathways get upregulated in such a way that eating carbohydrates causes fat gain/causes thermogenesis.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoAnd that's great, but how far do the lentils travel to get to your kitchen?