CrossFit East Bay WOD #@ GWPC 091211
Clean and Jerk 3-3-3-3-3
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The Anti-Evolutionary-Diet Rant by Dr. Rebecca Hodges, Crazed Bread Addict
"Any approximation of eating like cavemen is not only impossible but extremely dangerous. Virtually none of the plant-based matter that cavemen ate is available to us today---agriculture has led to the extinction of most of the edible plants that would have been available to the caveman, and we would not be able to chew the roots that he ate, because we don't have the jaws for that anymore. (We evolved, you see.) He would not have been able to find meat regularly, and much of the meat that he ate would have been partially decomposed. Being raw, this meat was hard to chew, tho decomposition would help with that. Red meat would have been particularly hard to deal with---the caveman probably scavenged bones for the marrow as much as for the meat. Insects were more readily available, and he ate them live. The caveman's diet included intermittent starvation, gastrointestinal parasites ingested with his food, and the microbial effects of eating rotting meat. So, who wants to sign up for a diet of termites, rats (if you can catch them,) roots, rotting bones, tapeworms, and hunger? That's what the cavemen were eating when they had the babies that became our ancestors. Whether or not it would make us strong and healthy is up for debate. I would say give it a try, but that would be impossible---the food available to us now is simply of too high a quality to make such a scientific trial at all viable.
My what big jaw muscles you have, Aunt Lucy. The better for chewing on roots 10 hours a day, my dear.
Despite cancers, obesity, widespread poverty, and the best efforts of Coca-Cola and Phillip Morris, we are now the healthiest and the prettiest we have ever been in the history of the species. We are living as long or longer than we ever have, and we are dying of old age, not malnutrition, consumption, or childbirth. Evolution is driven by reproduction, and if it came to a reproduction competition between us and the cavemen, we would win hands down. A lot of the time they probably weren't eating well enough to menstruate. Us today, we don't have a kid a year anymore, but we could if we wanted, and they'd all live, and we could feed them too.
OF COURSE we are not evolved (yet) to live on Coke, Skittles, Cheetos, and Krispy Kremes. OF COURSE we are healthier and stronger with fruit, vegetables, meats, and GRAINS. And some of us with milk. (Tho only roughly half the planet---makes the other half strong, tho, apparently. Crazy how evolution works like that.) If you can make a scientifically sound evolutionary argument for any type of food, it would be, hands down, grains. The whole planet of humans has gotten where it has through bread, noodles, and rice. If we measure based on diet, who is winning, the bread-eaters or the hunter-gatherers? Evolution is definitively and uncategorically going to pass on the genes built on grains. Are we going to say that evolutionary biology has determined that bread-eaters are superior and that hunter-gatherers are unfit? If you were a cowboy in the wild west, you would have used this argument to justify shooting Indians, who were savages and going extinct (not withstanding that almost all Indians were farmers, a fact that history intentionally buried because farmer Indians wouldn't have been so clearly savages, and if they weren't so clearly savages, they wouldn't have been so easy to shoot.) Evolutionary arguments make me sick, sicker than Skittles. Besides CrossFitters and cowboys, who makes evolutionary claims? Nazis. The KKK. White supremacists of all kinds, often to justify wholesale murder. (And Gita, but we like him, and he means no harm, and he's with me on this one, I'm pretty sure. :) )
Eat vegetables and meats. They are better for you than donuts. Cut grains out of your diet, if they don't make you feel healthy. But remember Daniel's realization that adding more carbs to a diet that had been nearly Paleo probably made him feel smarter, happier, and more energetic. His study didn't have a foregone conclusion, it didn't overstate its claims---and happily, it didn't rely on psuedo-science, which is not only stupid but dangerous, and has proven to be especially so in its evolutionary guise.
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For my life partner's version of this rant see today's CFEB post, comments. Be sure to click on all the greats to see how cute he is, with those big teeth.
(No cavemen and very little caveman research was harmed in writing this note. References available upon request. I can show evidence for the rats, the termites, the microbes, the scavenging, the bone marrow, the roots, the 10 hour days of chewing, the importance of huge jaws, and the seasonal lack of food, the agricultural abilities of the American Indians, and the evolutionary arguments of Indian-killers, Nazis, and other white supremacists. I extrapolated the tapeworms, the menstruation, and the KKK.)"
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Rebecca, nicely done. My list of references in refutation of Paleo, as applied to diet, stands at a current 21 pages (some sections are excerpted therein). If the impossible occurred and I wrote a rebuttal to the Paleo conjecture, no one would call it concise. You did it in four paragraphs (very concise, albeit lots of words for all the bullet pointers). Your ability to articulate your evidence and philosophy is admired. I know my musings, often no more than conjecture, sometimes infuriate you. That being said I have considered many new viewpoints (to me) as well as refined my own through our conversations.
No one should be surprised that none among us has ever consumed in any significant quantity a single species (flaura or fauna) whose morphology and genetics have not been purposefully directed by homo sapiens.
In conclusion, the Paleo and Paleo apologetics have been handed their asses by a social scientist and a craftsman (their adroitness notwithstanding). Promotion of charlatans, placebos, and false exclusivity is scientifically unsound; further, it is in my opinion morally reprehensible. There is nothing “old” from a biological perspective in our diets. There is nothing redeemable about the Paleo diet conjecture. There is another opportunity to capitalize on, frankly, stupidity by making the next commercial iteration of the miracle diet. The other day Polly said (may be paraphrased), “Why do we workout with so many smart people. Not normal smart, like, really smart.” To which I ask, why do smart people do really dumb things?
(Pssst, smart guy: Alex wrote the other posts, not Bill)
I'll be testing out a diet based on the cupcake and hotdog smoothies that Alex suggested yesterday.
I see your (Alex, Rebecca, Gita) points w/r to the evolution arguments behind paleo and the name itself. While the paleo name might be useful shorthand to us, it could also be rather misleading to those unfamiliar to it. I suppose the issue doesn't need to be overly complicated - real food in roughly zone proportions will likely yield improved athletic performance, with the corollary that you're also probably better off substituting more nutrient-dense carb sources for italian bread and pasta. Could we call it the "Pre-industrial era" Diet? Anyone have the stats on the number of heirloom varieties bred out of existence since the 19th century?
Did hang power cleans
135-155-155-160-165
Knee felt pretty good, only some minor soreness afterward.
50-50-50-60-60
Hallelujia Rebecca.
Sanity from a woman who kicks ass on the bar and rings and EATS BREAD.
I think that's why Max can only sputter speachlessly :D (I have to rib you Max because of the rash of s*** I get for being veg which evolutionarily has been around long before meat eaters existed)
135-155-160-165-165
Rolling my back forward out of the hole at heavier weights. No bueno.
85-85-85-85-85
Working on my form.
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