So I started eating meat again.

[Clevis Hitch]

I went on a four day kayak trip and I didn't eat any sugar or salt. I got by on a diet of squirrels and smallmouth bass with the occasional bluegill thrown in. After the fourth day I could definately feel the energy zap from not having white sugar. I went into "withdrawals" from the lack of instantaneaous sugar energy. I made about 45 miles in four days and the last day I went about 8 with a strong current.

[LK Day]

Dude, you need to eat more turkey samitches and Snicker bars. Last summer I went for a big day on the Yellowstone and had paddled 42 miles by 1:30 in the afternoon. I thought I was really going to get in some miles before dark but a fierce wind came up and put an end to the fun.

[Clevis Hitch]

Well I Drove 42 miles round trip to get hauled out. If I'd had wheels on the kayak I could've gone faster! 42 miles by 1:30 sounds awesome. What river where you on? the Yellowstone?

[LK Day]

Yep.

[tH1e-swiN1e]

There are certainly many aspects of how we digest/absorb foods that would indicate we were designed to have meat in our diets, not totally carnivorous, but definately some meat components. Iron is the most notable. We absorb heme-bound iron, which is found almost exclusively in meat, much more readily than non-heme iron, plus MFP-factor, which is found only in animal flesh, increases our ability to absorb non-heme iron. Vegetarians always point to the high iron content in dark greens such as spinach but never seem to realize that plants with high iron content are only high in the not-easily-absorbed non-heme iron and that they typically contain various chelating agents and fibrous entities that inhibit iron absorption. Those with vegetarian/vegan diets have a higher incedence of anemia because of this. Like other carnivors and omnivors, we have short, relatively inefficient digestive tracts with proteases that are very good at breaking down animal proteins but pretty crappy at breaking down a lot of the fibrous proteins found in plants.

Plus, don't kid yourself. If we didn't eat cows, they surely would eat us. http://pandasthumb.org/archives/images/ ... he_cow.JPG

Great response but omnivores and herbivores do not have short digestive tracts. Theirs will be double the length of a carnivores, and we are very equipped to break down cellulose in plants. Long digestive tracks, and well-developed alkaline saliva needed to digest grains and fruits.

[Clevis Hitch]

White sugar is the devil!!!

[ynp1]

White is right! So I thought... Oh wait...



It is all about the brown sugar!!!

[Clevis Hitch]

It's "If you ain't white! You ain't right!" At least thats what the bill board said in Georgia!

[Clevis Hitch]

So my question is this, what is the benefit of whole grains and green leafy vegetables. As a omnivore, what should I be looking to consume other than meat.

[caribe]

So my question is this, what is the benefit of whole grains and green leafy vegetables. As a omnivore, what should I be looking to consume other than meat.

For the omnivore it is indeed a dilemma.