How long can modern man live only eating raw, uncooked food?

[Darwin333]

Boo for the necro. And I have never seen anything that said hunter/gatherers lived anywhere near that long, got a link?

 

[William Gaatjes]

Salads and sushi, you'll be fine

Helloooo Tapeworms.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Boo for the necro. And I have never seen anything that said hunter/gatherers lived anywhere near that long, got a link?

It comes down to this:
More energy for a calory hungry brain to be able to think before acting and less parasites helps to get old.

 

[Yellow_Sunstreaker]

Boo for the necro. And I have never seen anything that said hunter/gatherers lived anywhere near that long, got a link?

Since you asked, here is the link for the so-called study:
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/gurven/papers/GurvenKaplan2007pdr.pdf

 

[spacejamz]

bout 3.50

Dammit...I've been necro'd....

 

[IronWing]

I miss Dari threads.

 

[OverVolt]

I think you'd lose a ton of weight. If you ate that diet from birth I doubt you'd crack 5'8" and 140lbs.

As an adult you would drop to about 120-140lbs after about a year on such a diet.

The thing is that humans process their food and have always processed their food. Even Monkeys drop coconuts from trees to break them open. If it weren't for milling grains, pressing oil, extracting sugar, etc. humans could not get nearly the calories we need. Our brain uses like 30% of our calories... its pretty crazy.

A cow spends literally all its time trying to digest/extract calories from fields. Hours and hours a day chewing, digesting, chewing, digesting etc. Their whole bodies are setup for that.

We haven't had the jaws or teeth to live in the wild or eat what we find for a long ass time. We have a medium length digestive system. Basically we're a predator that can somewhat digest plants. That is where pressing oil, milling grains, boiling starches, etc comes into the picture.

We're a weird species... basically a predator monkey that has to play with our food.

 

[Yellow_Sunstreaker]

I think you'd lose a ton of weight. If you ate that diet from birth I doubt you'd crack 5'8" and 140lbs.

As an adult you would drop to about 120-140lbs after about a year on such a diet.

The thing is that humans process their food and have always processed their food. Even Monkeys drop coconuts from trees to break them open. If it weren't for milling grains, pressing oil, extracting sugar, etc. humans could not get nearly the calories we need. Our brain uses like 30% of our calories... its pretty crazy.

A cow spends literally all its time trying to digest/extract calories from fields. Hours and hours a day chewing, digesting, chewing, digesting etc. Their whole bodies are setup for that.

We haven't had the jaws or teeth to live in the wild or eat what we find for a long ass time. We have a medium length digestive system. Basically we're a predator that can somewhat digest plants. That is where pressing oil, milling grains, boiling starches, etc comes into the picture.

We're a weird species... basically a predator monkey that has to play with our food.

In the era before cooking, over 40 was considered a mythical age for humans to reach.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I think you'd lose a ton of weight. If you ate that diet from birth I doubt you'd crack 5'8" and 140lbs.

As an adult you would drop to about 120-140lbs after about a year on such a diet.

The thing is that humans process their food and have always processed their food. Even Monkeys drop coconuts from trees to break them open. If it weren't for milling grains, pressing oil, extracting sugar, etc. humans could not get nearly the calories we need. Our brain uses like 30% of our calories... its pretty crazy.

A cow spends literally all its time trying to digest/extract calories from fields. Hours and hours a day chewing, digesting, chewing, digesting etc. Their whole bodies are setup for that.

We haven't had the jaws or teeth to live in the wild or eat what we find for a long ass time. We have a medium length digestive system. Basically we're a predator that can somewhat digest plants. That is where pressing oil, milling grains, boiling starches, etc comes into the picture.

We're a weird species... basically a predator monkey that has to play with our food.

Funny thing is that the large intestines are primarily used for digesting heavy fiber plant material.
I know that most predators do not have or very small in length large intestines as we do because they do not eat plants.
I wondered how it was like for apes. Turns out that chimpanzees have longer large intestines than we do. Gorillas i have not checked, but i am sure they do as well have longer large intestines.