A Flaw with "going back to nature"

[kingrollo]

We often hear it
"Humans weren't designed to sit"

"Humans weren't designed to eat processed food"

"Humans were designed to run , climb, hunt, go hungry (Fast) , Eat fruits and vegetables"

If you live like our ancestors - you won't be struck down by diseases or arthritis

The flaw in the argument seems to be that modern man (person !) - has a life expectancy far in excess of his ancestors .......discuss !

 

[CanucksTraveller]

1: No predators any more.
2: Medicine.

Next!

 

[kingrollo]

1: No predators any more.
2: Medicine.

Next!

Agreed - so is the 'back to nature' slogan in fact a load of rubbish ?

 

[Drago]

I've always fancied being a Viking myself. I'd trade a bit of lifespan for all that pillaging and lashings of beer.

 

[vickster]

Agreed - so is the 'back to nature' slogan in fact a load of rubbish ?

I guess it depends how you interpret that...or where you've read/ heard it?

 

[classic33]

1: No predators any more.
2: Medicine.

Next!

1. Predators have changed, not gone
2. We are still using methods used by stone age man. We just understand the effects a bit more.

 

[Dirk]

We often hear it
"Humans weren't designed to sit"

"Humans weren't designed to eat processed food"

"Humans were designed to run , climb, hunt, go hungry (Fast) , Eat fruits and vegetables"

If you live like our ancestors - you won't be struck down by diseases or arthritis

The flaw in the argument seems to be that modern man (person !) - has a life expectancy far in excess of his ancestors .......discuss !

Humans weren't 'designed' to do anything; we evolved.
If we lived like our ancestors we would all be dead before about 40 years old.

 

[raleighnut]

If we weren't 'designed' to sit then what are buttocks for.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

If we weren't 'designed' to sit then what are buttocks for.

Exactly, and if we were not meant to sit, what are chairs for then?

 

[Drago]

Exactly, and if we were not meant to sit, what are chairs for then?

For having chariot races around the office.

 

[johnblack]

I've always fancied being a Viking myself. I'd trade a bit of lifespan for all that pillaging and lashings of beer.

That's the way we still roll in the Shire.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

"Humans weren't designed to eat processed food"

Explain this then. These people seem superbly evolved to eat processed food.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNz15nuJhsI&t=230s

 

[CanucksTraveller]

2. We are still using methods used by stone age man. We just understand the effects a bit more.

We're perhaps using a few of the basic methods used by stone age man, but come on! Medical advances are constantly making man live longer, even from 100 years ago.

1. Predators have changed, not gone.

I don't think the predators changed that much in only the last few thousand years, but humans certainly did. Humans got better at controlling, or killing, or making their predators extinct, (or nigh on extinct). That's what I mean by no predators and the effect on human mortality. There are still wolves around now, as there were 8000 years ago, we just learned to kill more effectively, domesticate, and isolate ourselves better to keep the others away.

 

[12boy]

If you consider the question to be more along the lines of "How well does our very busy, while sedentary lifestyle and the quantity and type of food we eat match with our bodies physical and mental needs"? the answer may be "not very well". I believe one of most basic needs is to feel we matter to other people and this need is not always met well in our world today.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Has our food ever met our needs? Did our hunter gatherer ancestors ever get all their needs met by what they were eating? And was the move to farming and a more settled lifestyle a step forward or a step back?