Animals have eaten fat long before we did. They’re still animals. ?
If you look to less developed cultures, they often eat the fatty parts of the animal - meaning the organs - over the meat. For them the meat is for feeding the animals.
Yale. No, thanks.
Don’t preditors typically eat the entrails and visceral fat of their prey first?
Fat, is where it’s at.
The pursuit of such tasty fat is probably what made us relatively squirrelly, too.
That’s a “ Just So “ story if I ever heard one.
Dumb way to state it. Revised: Eating meat favored the growth of our superior brain.
I believe our ancestors ate fat. But that 4 million years stuff is a crock; and not a crock of fat, either. They, and we eat fat because it’s good and good FOR us. God told the Jews, if they did right and obeyed Him, they would enjoy the fat of the land, “and thou shalt be fat.” I choose to believe and obey God, and keep on enjoying the good stuff.
Fat is sought out by all omnivores and carnivores.
The idea that there were lots of long bones filled with fat, just lying around to be scavenged, is silly.
The idea that eating rabbits and other small game is not enough to sustain life is silly too.
When carnivores catch a rabbit, they eat all of it. They don't simply strip out the meat, like fastidious 20th century explorers might.
The Canadian Indians survived mostly on rabbits for long periods.
They skinned them and ate the rest of the rabbit. The entire rabbit went into the pot, when they had pots.
The skin was used to make woven rabbit blankets.
Does that mean the Atkins diet will make one less smart? Please say it’s so - I need to let my wife know...
Moderate protien, high fat diet is far far more of what our bodies are built to utilize than the insanely high carbohydrate diet that the modern american diet tends to be.
I can eat 2 hard boiled eggs for breakfast and be good until lunch, or I can eat a bowl of cereal and milk and be hungry in an hour. Or a couple of pieces of toast, and be hungry in an hour... even though all 3 meals contain roughly the same calories.
A taste for fat may have made us human, says study
Back about thirty years ago some anthropologist wrote a book on the theory that what gave the human brain a ‘bump” in the evolutionary process was that some lower order (chimps/) started eating the brains of their kind as they cannibalized them. I don’t remember the name of the author or book, but it caused something of a small blip on the evolutionary theory radar at the time.
Or we can join Georgio with the theory that it was alien extraterrestrials.