The key theme of food talks is that eating more
intelligently is not difficult, and that one doesn’t have to eat 100% different
or change in any kind of major way. In fact, if you just change a little bit at
a time, it is called a positive feedback cycle, and it is a
snowball. So if only one time, you were going to grab a candy bar but instead
you grab an apple or a banana and that only happened once in the next 55 years,
don't think that is insignificant. The fact is, if we just do very small things,
it makes a huge difference, not a small difference; you do one smart thing, it
makes you stronger mentally and physically, giving you the potential to do
another smart thing later on, and it builds up like a snowball. Eventually it
just becomes very easy to act more intelligently.
We are primates and there are two kinds of primates
that exist; monkeys and apes. The difference between monkeys and apes is that
monkeys have tails, and apes do not have tails.
There is something called digestive anatomy, which
means that if you analyze a species’ intestinal design, if you analyze the
design of the actual digestive track, you actually can figure out what they
eat. Biologist know, without even seeing what the animal is, they just open up
the animal, look at the design of the intestinal track and determine whether it
is a carnivore, or herbivore, or a fruit eating animal just because of the
design. Now, if you were to take one of the apes and lay them on the floor
dead, split them all open including one human, you are going to see exactly the
same intestinal track. We have the same design, same digestive anatomy as they
do. What you see is that, you have intestines that are 12 times the length of
the torso.
The thing about comparative anatomy like this is
that there is no exception. If the design of the anatomy is X, then they eat X.
The will never eat Y because there are no exceptions to this. We have the same
digestive system as all these other primates, all these other great apes, and
so that means that we are meant to be eating the same thing that they are
eating. And so, we are what are called fruibivores.
There are carnivores out there, there are herbivores
out there and there are omnivores and there are fruibivores. So every type of
food is going to have a different digestive system, for example, herbivores you
know have multiple stomachs. It is so hard to extract nutrition out of just
grass that it takes more than one stomach to do it. The carnivorous system is
very short and very stout and very smooth because carnivores are eating dead
animals and nature knows you don't want to keep a dead animal inside your body
for too long, so the carnivorous system is very quick and very short and
extracts the nutrients and out with the fur and the other stuff, the teeth,
stuff it doesn't want.
The question is what is our digestive system and how
does it relate. Remember, our intestines are 12 times the length of our torso,
which means our intestines are extremely long, they are convoluted which means
there's a lot of bends and turns, and there's a lot of nooks and crannies, a
lot of hiding places because they are not smooth.
I want to address this omnivore-carnivore thing,
because we are all told that we are omnivores? You eat anything! Have you ever
seen, a big old home and the fire place has family portraits? Let’s make 2
family portraits and I am going to stick you inside either family portrait and
you are going to tell me where you fit best. Portrait number one: monkey,
Chimpanzee, mountain gorilla, bonabo, gibbon and orangutan, that is family
number one, and you are welcome to put yourself into that family. Or if you
want you could go into the omnivorous families and you can join the pigs, the
rats and the dogs. Those are omnivores on this planet. Where do you think you
fit? With the pig and the rat, because they will eat anything. Then you have
the other choice which is these great apes that have very big brains that are
extremely intelligent, extremely gentle and fruit eaters. I am guessing that
you have already figured out where you probably fit a little bit more neatly,
into the group of the great apes, fore so, that is what you are, and second of
all, you probably realize that there is not a lot of resemblance between you
and a rat, or you and a pig in general
We are NOT omnivores, because if we were, we would
be in the family of pigs and rats. But we are not, we are in this family of
apes because we are fruibivores, and the proof is so simple; you open us up,
and you see what our digestive system looks like, and it looks like all their
digestive systems, if you open up a rats digestive system, it wouldn't look
anything like that.
