Why Killer Whales Don't Eat Twinkies
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2023 4:58 am
A little more than twenty years ago, my wife and I took our kids to the nearby zoo. For some reason, I became very interested in what the people who work at the zoo feed the animals. I asked at least six workers about animal nutrition, and none of them knew anything about it. Finally, one of them put me in touch with a nice woman who works on the zoo's animal nutrition team. I asked the nutritionists how worried they were about giving the animals a natural food. It really wanted to know if the food they were giving the animals was similar to what the animals would eat in the wild or if they were making up a diet that was not natural, like how people feed their dogs and cats at home. She said that most zoos and animal sanctuaries do their best to feed their animals only natural foods. In some cases, they even fly in fresh meat or leafy veggies for the animals. For instance, the lions at this zoo mostly eat innards and bone-and-muscle meat that has been ground up. In the wild, lions only eat every three or four days. At the zoo, they were fed every 18 hours or so, and the times were changed often so the lions wouldn't get stressed out when they thought it was time to eat.
While I was walking around the zoo and looking at all the animals that didn't seem to be overweight or underweight, I realized that people do care about other living things and will take the time to care for them when they depend on us for their survival. So I started to notice all the fat people walking around looking at the animals. Suddenly, it was like a light bulb went off in my head: we research what animals eat so we can take care of them in captivity, but we don't discipline our own kids and loved ones when they make bad food choices, and we never look into what we should be eating besides all the crap in the middle aisles. Yes, most of us will spend $50 on a 10-pound bag of dog food while giving our kids 40-cent Twizzlers so they won't complain about being hungry and will go play on the computer in their room.
That's when I started researching. After many months of study, I found that before the agricultural revolution, a normal human diet consisted of a lot of meat (including organ meat), eggs, a lot of fats (including saturated fats), and a minimal amount of vegetables, grasses, and fruits. Our bodies used that as a food source for hundreds of thousands of years. The above-mentioned foods are the best for our bodies to break down for energy. On the other hand, foods high in sugar and wheat products are not as good for our bodies. It is thought that many diseases people get are caused by their pancreas, liver, and bowels working ten times harder than they need to because we feed them things that are harder for them to break down.
I began eating like our ancestors did many years before the carnivore diet became famous and the Atkins diet was frowned upon. This changed my life more than anything else has ever done. At first, all I ate were meat and eggs. After a few weeks, I added cheese because it doesn't have any sugar. Then I started adding small amounts of veggies and fruits. It was clear right away that something had changed because my body wasn't working as hard to break down the food I was eating. My mood was much better, my heart was calmer, I could think more clearly, and best of all, I wasn't hungry in between meals.
My long-time doctor retired years ago, and he and tthree new doctors have told me the same thing. That all of my tests are fine except for my total cholesterol and that I will die of a heart attack if I don't start taking statins and change what I eat. It got so bad that one young doctor got angry with me because I wouldn't take statins and eat the way he told me to. I told him he wasn't talking sense and that people who eat a natural human diet should have high cholesterol. I also told him he should stop depending on the crap he learned in medical school and start practicing medicine like a real doctor.
The natural food of humans is as easy to understand as the diet of any animal you watch for a short time, whether it's a lion, a cow, a gorilla, or any other animal. But for some reason, over the last few hundred years, we've thought too much about what humans should eat and have been so brainwashed into thinking that meat is bad that 99% of us don't understand that we are meant to eat the very thing that most doctors say we should eat less of. People have made saturated fat look bad, but it's actually one of our main sources of energy and makes us feel full for hours.
It's possible to make your life better by eating a lot of protein and fat, especially saturated fat. People's lives can change in ways they never thought possible if they fast for anywhere from 12 to 48 hours once or twice a week. In the same way that a zookeeper would know that a killer whale that is fed twinkies and Swiss cake rolls is probably less happy and healthy than one that is fed fatty fish, I'm saying the same thing about humans. As much as MDs and PhDs try to tell you otherwise, it's not hard. People who seem to be the smartest in a room aren't always the smartest. Certainly, this is the case when it comes to a normal human diet. Anyone disagree?
While I was walking around the zoo and looking at all the animals that didn't seem to be overweight or underweight, I realized that people do care about other living things and will take the time to care for them when they depend on us for their survival. So I started to notice all the fat people walking around looking at the animals. Suddenly, it was like a light bulb went off in my head: we research what animals eat so we can take care of them in captivity, but we don't discipline our own kids and loved ones when they make bad food choices, and we never look into what we should be eating besides all the crap in the middle aisles. Yes, most of us will spend $50 on a 10-pound bag of dog food while giving our kids 40-cent Twizzlers so they won't complain about being hungry and will go play on the computer in their room.
That's when I started researching. After many months of study, I found that before the agricultural revolution, a normal human diet consisted of a lot of meat (including organ meat), eggs, a lot of fats (including saturated fats), and a minimal amount of vegetables, grasses, and fruits. Our bodies used that as a food source for hundreds of thousands of years. The above-mentioned foods are the best for our bodies to break down for energy. On the other hand, foods high in sugar and wheat products are not as good for our bodies. It is thought that many diseases people get are caused by their pancreas, liver, and bowels working ten times harder than they need to because we feed them things that are harder for them to break down.
I began eating like our ancestors did many years before the carnivore diet became famous and the Atkins diet was frowned upon. This changed my life more than anything else has ever done. At first, all I ate were meat and eggs. After a few weeks, I added cheese because it doesn't have any sugar. Then I started adding small amounts of veggies and fruits. It was clear right away that something had changed because my body wasn't working as hard to break down the food I was eating. My mood was much better, my heart was calmer, I could think more clearly, and best of all, I wasn't hungry in between meals.
My long-time doctor retired years ago, and he and tthree new doctors have told me the same thing. That all of my tests are fine except for my total cholesterol and that I will die of a heart attack if I don't start taking statins and change what I eat. It got so bad that one young doctor got angry with me because I wouldn't take statins and eat the way he told me to. I told him he wasn't talking sense and that people who eat a natural human diet should have high cholesterol. I also told him he should stop depending on the crap he learned in medical school and start practicing medicine like a real doctor.
The natural food of humans is as easy to understand as the diet of any animal you watch for a short time, whether it's a lion, a cow, a gorilla, or any other animal. But for some reason, over the last few hundred years, we've thought too much about what humans should eat and have been so brainwashed into thinking that meat is bad that 99% of us don't understand that we are meant to eat the very thing that most doctors say we should eat less of. People have made saturated fat look bad, but it's actually one of our main sources of energy and makes us feel full for hours.
It's possible to make your life better by eating a lot of protein and fat, especially saturated fat. People's lives can change in ways they never thought possible if they fast for anywhere from 12 to 48 hours once or twice a week. In the same way that a zookeeper would know that a killer whale that is fed twinkies and Swiss cake rolls is probably less happy and healthy than one that is fed fatty fish, I'm saying the same thing about humans. As much as MDs and PhDs try to tell you otherwise, it's not hard. People who seem to be the smartest in a room aren't always the smartest. Certainly, this is the case when it comes to a normal human diet. Anyone disagree?