Nearly all diet programs suffer from the same problem. They assume everyone can do well on the same program and this couldn’t be further from the truth. Popular diets like Atkins, South Beach and The Zone all have this downfall in common. For each person that does well on one of these diets, there’s another that does horribly.

The Intelligence of Evolution

Before advances in technology made it easy to travel the world, native cultures were dependent on the food sources that were immediately available to them. If you lived in the Arctic region, this meant a diet of nearly all protein and fat from marine mammals. Conversely, fruit and vegetables would be most abundant for natives of the Tropics. Over millions of years, these people evolved to thrive on the foods that were most accessible.

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Most people associate a vegetarian diet with good health, but is this true? I came across a comment today suggesting that humans are more suited to be vegetarians than carnivores. I don’t quite agree with that and thought it would be a nice topic for discussion.

Vegetarianism is a fairly common practice and I’ve come across quite a few people who have embraced it. Some of them are healthy, yet some aren’t. But if fruits and vegetables are so good for you, how can this be? The answer is simple. Everyone is different. We each have a unique need for different nutrients and not all of us can get the nutrients we need from a vegetarian diet.

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