Your Health

WHAT YOU SHOULD EAT – Nature’s answer


I am not a dietician but follow the simple rule:

**** Let nature and human history be your guide. ***

In this case, our teeth are the key.

Whether you are a Darwinian, Bible follower or have another religious tradition, there
is no denying that the different kinds of teeth we have in our mouths are nature’s way
of telling us what foods we should eat.

a) We have 4 different kinds of teeth; flat surfaced, wide molars at the back for squishing, chewing and breaking down food fibers, we have up front incisors like axe blades to cut and chop up food, we have 4 canines designed to pierce and hold flesh as we try to tear it apart – just like dogs, tigers and bears, and 8 bicuspids which are half canine and half molars.

Consequently, of the 32 teeth an adult human has, 12 – or just over 1/3 -- are full or half
canines – designed to tear meat!

b) The foods that grow naturally on this planet fit into 5 categories: fruits and berries
from trees and shrubs; roots and vegetables; plants such as rice, corn and grains;
and animals – be they from the sea, land or air.

Our teeth – the same teeth as our great, great, great ancestors had thousands of years ago -- are designed to eat all 5 food sources. We are, to use the scientific label, omnivores.


In brief, then, in spite of the contemporary anti- meat/pro-vegetarian movement and its efforts to have us all abandon eating animal flesh, our biology -- our teeth -- say that is
not nature’s plan.

Otherwise we would not be given canines; we would be given teeth like cows, sheep and goats: all incisors and molars -- but no canines.


Eating flesh is part of who we were and who we are meant to be: now and in the future.