Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study

Re:Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, say... by cies on Monday August 13, 2018 @10:20AM (#17750278)

> Our bodies are designed to consume ready to use nutrients and more importantly pre-processed nutrients

I find it hard to believe that we are designed to do something that we have later "designed" ourselves. I see cooking as a survival strategy, by which we have grown our habitat by a lot. I look at man as a tropical being, its the only place I can survive without cloths. In the tropics there is also fruits that man can gather/eat without the use of tech. Fruits, leaves, seeds and bugs. Therefor I expect that to be our diets (see bugs there? so not dogmatically vegan here). Also when I put together a diet of said ingredients in cronometer.com it adds up to what we know about RDIs nowadays.

I'l have a look at the book you recommended, tnx for that. Much appreciated.

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Re:Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, say... by dogma1138 on Monday August 13, 2018 @10:34AM (#17750373)

We are designed that way - we have the largest small intestine of all apes, and i think it's also one of the largest (ratio wise) if not the largest of all omnivore mammals.

Comparison with apes: https://carta.anthropogeny.org/moca/topics/smalllarge-intest... We didn't invent cooking there are good indications that our ancestors cooked food as early as 2m years ago, and cooking here is defined as chemical alteration limited to roasting or boiling.

In fact some animals technically "cook" as they intentionally let food undergo chemical changes and even induce it buy collecting, digging fermentation pits and even covering them with foliage to induce anaerobic fermentation.

Also the reason we are who we are and the rest of the apes are an evolutionary dead end is that we were better at exploiting our environment specifically better at extracting lipids and proteins which was beneficial for cognitive development.

How and what we eat is a the very core reason to why we are considerably more developed than the rest of our ape cibilings, and that is a very important fact to remember.

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Re:Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, say... by cies on Monday August 13, 2018 @01:59PM (#17752131)

> How and what we eat is a the very core reason to why we are considerably more developed than the rest of our ape cibilings, and that is a very important fact to remember.

Thanks again. Why I agree, I also the the opposite. An sick and obese population. I see similarities with other animals that we feed (ie dogs). Humans and dogs are often in bad health at the end of our lives, while apes and wolves are doing well...

What do you think of this? BTW how did you get into this field, own interest (like me) or some formal studies?

(we're running out of replies, I may reply in some other way if you do not mind)

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Re:Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, say... by dogma1138 on Monday August 13, 2018 @05:34PM (#17753815)

The population can get sick and obese and not die because we are not in the wilderness apes and wolves don’t have that great of a time they die the moment they become even remotely unfit.

For most apes in captivity the life expectancy is nearly 50% greater than those in the wild even those who are in reservations, for some it’s duble or more.

You will not find gorillas older than 30-35 years in the wild those in captivity live up to 50-60.

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