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| Were Early Humans Vegetarian? By: Sally Grande and Stephen Leckie Some scientists are claiming that humans are omnivores based on observations of Chimps hunting and eating meat. This has more to do with competing for the local fruit trees than hunting for nutrition. The Authors say: “While chimpanzees are known to kill, this behavior is not necessarily dietary but ritualistic and their diet is at least 94% Plants & Fruits.” |
| Man's Dietetic Character By: Herbert M. Shelton Shelton is the expert when it comes to the Human Anatomy, his incredible knowledge on this subject is far reaching and his conclusions regarding the Laws of Nature and Man’s dietary requirements seem incontrovertible. All of his books and articles are a joy to read and an incredible learning experience that could help prolong your life. “Man’s digestive tract is the same as is found in the Frugivores. Man does not fall properly into the class carnivora.” |
| Early Human Diet Fruit Was The Staple By: Boyce Rensberger, New York Times Breakthrough discovery showing prehistoric humans lived exclusively on a Fruit Diet. “Dr. Alan Walker an anthropologist studying fossil teeth has led to the startling conclusion that our early human ancestors subsisted chiefly on a diet of Fruit.” |
| Anthropology Of The Human Diet By: Mark Blackburn, MBA Mr. Blackburn gets it, he understands the logical dietary history of humans. “The most recent and widely held view of the historical diet of humans is that early man was exclusively a Fruit eater. Anthropologist Dr. Alan Walker’s research team has proven that our ancestors until quite recently were total Fruitarians. Even though humans have adopted omnivorous eating practices, our anatomy and physiology have not changed—we remain biologically a species of Fruiteaters.” |
| Human Development On A Fruit & Veggie Diet By: Herbert M. Shelton Frugivores developed larger brains than Carnivores our teeth clearly demonstrate that we are biological fruit eaters. "All the evidence points to fruits as being the food of our adaptation. Anthropologists have established that human culture and social organization arose from a background in nature as a Fruit-feeding animal." |
| Man The Hunted: Primates Predators & Human Evolution By: Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D Book Review By: Neil Schoenherr Dr. Sussman makes the case that since our teeth and anatomy are not designed to consume flesh we did not hunt animals for food, in fact he claims that humans were the prey and not the predator. Dr. Sussman says: "Our intelligence, cooperation and many other features we have as modern humans developed from our attempts to out-smart the predator." |
| Are Humans Natural Frugivores? By: Vasu Murti Good article with plenty of quotes by experts to show that humans are designed by nature to subsist on a Frugivorous diet. "Humans are classified as primates and are thus Frugivores. Examination of the dental structure of modern man reveals that he possesses all the features of a strictly herbivorous animal. While designed to subsist on vegetarian foods he has perverted his dietary habits to accept food of the carnivore." |
| Fruitarianism & Vegetarianism By: Herbert M. Shelton Excerpted From: The Hygienic System, Vol. II Classifying The Human Anatomy Review: Excellent in-depth historic analysis of the Human diet throughout the centuries. Shelton briefly compares the Anatomy of Carnivores & Frugivores and concludes that Humans are: Unequivocally Anatomical Frugivores. |
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| Are Humans Natural Carnivores? By: Harry Mather Nice comparison of the human anatomy and carnivorous animals. "Carnivores kill their prey and usually eat it whilst still warm. Human hunters carry their prey home and cook it with tasty herbs before they will eat it. Our front teeth are well adapted for biting fruit and cutting up vegetables. Plant foods show themselves to be well adapted for providing the wide range of minerals and vitamins that our bodies require." |
| Relating Chimpanzee Diets To Early Human Diets Nancy Lou Conklin-Brittain, Richard W. Wrangham, Catherine C. Smith Harvard Researchers working in Uganda discovered that chimps ate less than 1 percent of meat in their diet. “Although a need for protein or fat is often assumed to explain increasing amounts of hunting throughout hominid evolution, primates do not have metabolic demands for high levels of protein or fat. Chimpanzees were much more Frugivorous. They maintained a fairlylow protein intake, due to their focus on Fruit.” |
| The Comparative Anatomy of Eating By: Milton R. Mills, M.D. Great Article, one of the Best studies ever done comparing the human anatomy with that of carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. Dr. Mills concludes that humans are anatomical frugivores. "While most humans are clearly "behavioral" omnivores, the question still remains as to whether humans are anatomically suited for a diet that includes animal as well as plant foods." |
| Natural Human Diet According To Biological & Evolutionary Evidence By: Jonathan Reed Excellent Comprehensive Article. “Human teeth are not designed for tearing flesh as in the Lion, Wolf or Dog, but rather compare closely with other fruit-eating animals. Human teeth correspond almost identically to the Chimpanzees and other Frugivores. In conclusion, our natural diet should consist primarily of Fruits, Nuts, and Green Vegetables.” |
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| Chimp Hunting & Flesh-Eating By: Laurie Forti Great analysis of the Chimp diet, Chimps actually eat very little meat in the wild and not everyone in the family partakes of the meat. More like a trophy for defeating a local group of monkeys competing for the same fruit, than hunting for nutrition. "When we examine the way flesh is captured, killed, distributed, and eaten, Chimp flesh-eating is merely a social pathology, just as it is in the human. If meat was necessary it would be consumed by all on a regular basis; it simply is not." |
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| Food For Thought: Dietary Change Was A Driving Force In Human Evolution By: William R. Leonard, Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern Univ. Laurie Forti: Reviews The Book: Laurie Forti disagrees with the author who is misrepresenting the facts when it comes to early human diet. "I am always amused by such pseudo scientific claims regarding the great wonders conferred to our species by flesh-eating, when the proponents of such claims can not explain just why the human did not evolve the sharp, pointy tools seen among all natural flesh-eaters, and especially why we did not evolve instincts to capture, kill, and eat flesh raw." |
| Tasty Tidbits & Dastardly Dietary Dogma By: Laurie Forti Once again Laurie Forti with great wit and intelligence challenges “scientists” who claim that humans are Omnivores. Very logical, well-written. "One of the most ridiculous and persistent false claims made by armchair nutritionists, meatarian propagandists, and even academics, is that the human species is an "omnivore" that is, it should eat both plant and animal matter. Just looking at our bodies will conclusively prove that we do not have the claws or talons necessary to catch and hold animal prey, and we do not have the sharp, shearing teeth necessary to tear, not chew, animal flesh." |
| Humans are Omnivores By: John McArdle, Ph.D Laurie Forti: Examines The Flimsy Evidence Excellent review of scientific paper distorting the facts regarding nutrition and the human anatomy. "Humans are totally incapable of killing, tearing asunder, and consuming raw their prey with their natural, biological equipment, as all natural omnivores do. I have challenged people who adamantly claim that they are "omnivores" for over 35 years to prove they are natural "omnivores" by simply killing and eating raw a small animal with their natural equipment, and none has ever done so to actually test their irrational belief. Not one." |
| Comparative Anatomy & Taxonomy By: John Coleman Short Article substantiating that Humans are anatomical Frugivores. "Humans prefer culture and technology over nature, and since our natural role is as a raw food herbivore, and because our bodies are only suited to that role, any significant perversion of it must, and does, lead to ill health. Our anatomy is clearly unsuited to deal with animal matter in the diet, however our digestive chemistry can deal with animal tissues and obtain some nutrition. But this does not indicate biological suitability or desirability." |
| The Heretic's Feast - A History of Vegetarianism By: Colin Spencer Excerpt From The Book: A brief history of the human diet. "Some anthropologists suggest that our brain development did not begin until red meat entered our diet. If there was a correlation between the consumption of red meat and the enlargement of brain cells, big cats would have the largest brains and be the dominant species in the world today. Research shows us that a herbivore diet is by far the healthiest and it may well be that a raw Vegetable and Fruit diet, chosen from produce in season, is the optimum healthy diet, as it is so similar to the diet of our evolution." |
| Meat In The Human Diet By: John A. McDougall, M.D. Great Article, written by a medical doctor who understands the connection between diet & disease. "The early ancestors of modern humans, from at least 4 million years ago, followed diets almost exclusively of plant-foods. The ancestors of modern humans were believed to live primarily on plant foods, eating wild Fruits, leaves, roots, and other high quality plant parts with a few animal foods in their daily diet. These pre-humans ate like our nearest primate relatives, the apes of today. Our dentition evolved for processing starches, Fruits, and Vegetables, not tearing and masticating Flesh." |
| Proteins In The Fruitarian Diet By: Dr. Herbert M. Shelton Another informative well written article from the human anatomy expert, Herbert Shelton. "Physically, humans developed on Fruits just as our primate relatives in nature. In consequence anthropologists and biologists have classified humans as Frugivores or Fruit Eaters. Our Meat-eating past as civilized peoples has been limited to recent times and has usually been confined to those peoples living in the far North. Much of our history indicates that our ancestors were Fruitarians. But, history books today omit or falsify our past and our Fruit-eating nature." |
| The Paradise Diet By: Dr. Herbert M. Shelton Since Humans emerged from equatorial Africa, Shelton suggests that a Paradise Diet would have to come from living in a warm climate where an abundance of Fruit is available all year. “According to an ancient tradition, when man first appeared he lived in a beautiful orchard in which grew Fruits of many kinds. Man's diet throughout the historic period in all favorable regions of the earth has been predominantly Fruitarian. The food of primeval man consisted of Fruit and Nuts of subtropical climes, spontaneously produced; that on these foods man was and may again become, at least as free from disease as the animals are in a state of nature." |
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