[neverdem]

let’s see, our ancient ancestors the lemurs ate fruit almost exclusively!!!!

What happened to rhesus monkeys? Didn't they evolve from the lemurs?

Fructose-fed rhesus monkeys: A nonhuman primate model of insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes

[neverdem]

Hypothesis: Could Excessive Fructose Intake and Uric Acid Cause Type 2 Diabetes?

This is an interesting review article.

Besides making the case against fructose consumption, it suggests that "humans have no functional uricase due to a mutation that occurred in the Miocene epoch," and the "the mutational loss of vitamin C synthesis during the Eocene," could be involved with obesity, metabolic syndrome, aka syndrome X, and type 2 diabetes.

It took me about 3 hours to read.

[muawiyah]

Were the monkeys in the wild, or were they captive? There's a big difference in the amount of exercise you can get up in the trees versus what you get in a small cage in a laboratory.

But I don't think Rhesus monkeys are in our lineage ~ maybe a parallel lineage ~ but like so many i think that blue-eyed blond, broad shoulders part, striding about on the ground started out before the Cretaceous ~ don't you? (/snork)