That little voice in your head begging for sugar? It's not in your head...
About a month ago I resolved to eating at least 100g of protein per day (1.2g/kg) to see if that wouldn't help me with some recovery and healing. It was a real chore to eat that much. I would eat three eggs and black beans for breakfast to get ~30g, then shoot for 30-40g for lunch and another 30-40g for dinner. I was eating a lot of cottage cheese to make up the extra protein I wasn't getting.
I was constantly so full I lost all desire for sweets. Not eating dessert is effortless, probably in part because I'm beyond satiated.
[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/whats-the-bee...
Edit to add: Look up Dr. Georgia Ede videos on YouTube for some of this debunking.
Edit: s/didn't live/rarely lived/
>60s or 70s not uncommon.
I would love to see the evidence you're referencing.
> Life expectancy being 25 doesn't mean nobody lives past 25.
You're absolutely right.
The Sami, as I mentioned, have been studied. They are a tribe of reindeer herders in northern Scandinavia. They eat a diet consisting of almost exclusively reindeer meat. They have lower cancer incidence than Finns (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijc.10486).
Hong Kong consumes more red meat per person than the U.S. and they have the highest life expectancy in the world: https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-consumption-per-capit... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
Very far from a typical meat diet (quoting from your link):
"The dietary habits of the Sami differ from those of the other Finns. Reindeer meat (low in fat) and fish have been important foodstuffs in the diet of Sami people. Intake of vegetables and fresh fruits has been low, but berries were eaten, especially by the North Sami. Although nowadays dietary habits have become more similar to that of the rest of the population, still more than 90% of male Sami reindeer herders eat reindeer meat at least 3 times a week and almost 50% eat fish at least twice a week. Reindeer meat and fish contain high concentrations of healthy lipids, trace elements (e.g., selenium), minerals and vitamins. Arctic people usually rely on blood, liver or kidneys from animals to obtain adequate nutrition."
http://www.unm.edu/~hkaplan/KaplanHillLancasterHurtado_2000_...
As another poster pointed out, we can't really know how long people lived in prehistory. The numbers come from contemporary hunter-gatherers.
Meat is a target of opportunity, one that helped us build much larger brains. But it’s not the only thing we’re tuned to eat.
I read somewhere that in some sense minkind devolved to eat red meat. Some gene was damaged, which helped humans to do a marathon activity to track red meat running away (IIRC something to do with an ability of blood to carry oxygen), but humans lost a key enzyme to process fatty acids from red meat. So mankind got more proteins but started to die from heart desease. Probably it was no so bad then because an average lifespan was too short to develop severe symptoms.
Sorry, cannot find a link.
The Inuit don't eat the way they used to, but it was a good deal of fish along with game and berries (ditto for Sami). Their CVD profile has never been reported to be particularly good. Maasai consume mostly milk, and are in a perpetual state of caloric deficit.
There's an irony to our nutrition, we pay for industrial _ _ _ _ that is bad for us then pay for solutions. Just eat basic stuff and go do something fun.
I live in Japan. I've eaten plenty of it. It's the health equivalent of cake frosting in Asia.
I also have a weird condition where I'll forget to eat to the point of low blood sugar, sometimes drastically so--speech or vision impairment. I've learned to recognize physical changes associated with very low blood sugar (e.g. nausea, feeling hot/cold/sweaty at normal room temp, extreme indecision) to remember to eat. Haven't found a way to stay in a normal middle ground.
1. Very low carb means your blood sugar never rises sharply, and then your body doesn't over-correct which can lead to that hypoglycemic feeling.
2. Adapting to utilize primarily fat means that blood sugar largely doesn't enter into the equation and urgent eating to raise blood sugar can go away. It usually takes people days to weeks to get adapted and feel back to normal.