EADES: We Evolved BECAUSE We Ate Meat

“Wheat has been from the beginning - in the Bible, Joseph & Pharaoh - famine”. Please watch the below video from @DrEades . Go to about the 32 min. Mark where he talks about the Egyptians & their diets - “BOOBS & BELLIES”- Wheat/grains - https://t.co/K9j6oVhYZc

— Wejolyn 🇺🇸 (@Wejolyn) December 28, 2021

27:00  on the section titled, Agriculturalist vs. Hunter-Gatherers, Eades talks about tooth decay with farming.  Hunters had tooth loss in old age.   They used their teeth as tools a lot more than farmers did.  More farmers infected than hunter-gatherers.  

"The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered."  --Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel, 1997.

Strong Medicine, Blake F. Donaldson, and Charles Gordon Heyd, 1962.

The 1995 Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis, coauthored by Leslie E. Aiello and Peter Wheeler, asserts that

The expensive tissue hypothesis relates brain and gut size in evolution. It suggests that in order for an organism to evolve a large brain without a significant increase in basal metabolic rate, the organism must use less energy on other expensive tissues; the paper introducing the ETH suggests that in humans, this was achieved by eating an easy-to-digest diet and evolving a smaller, less energy-intensive gut.  

At the 33:10 mark, Aedes cites a passage from Arno Karlen's book, Napoleon's Glands and Other Ventures in Biohistory, 1985.  

Blood vessel disease was common, contrary to assumptions that it rises from urban stress and a modern high-fat diet.  

At 33:55, he starts on the ancient Egyptian diet.  The Egyptian diet was completely and totally wrapped up in wheat.  In the Louvre, they had so many Egyptian sculptures with people making bread.  Bread-making was so important in ancient Egypt.  It was the staple of the ancient Egyptian diet.  It was coarse, ground, whole wheat bread and it was emmer wheat.  They sprinkled sand in it because it made it rise more easily.  And then they tried to sift the sand out but they were never successful.  We'll see the results of that in a second.  They even had ads back then that said, "Buy Joe's Bread: It Has Less Sand," because the sand in the bread was a common thing, and it really ground down their teeth.  And their fondness for bread was so well-known that the bread-eating Egyptians were called "Artophagoi," or "Eaters of Bread."  Their military was rationed 4 pounds of bread a day.  This was stone-ground, whole wheat bread. They ate fish, duck, and other waterfowl along the river, but their whole economy was based around wheat.  Their primary carbohydrates were: 

Carbohydrates:  Bread, Fruits, Vegetables, Honey, 

Oils:  Olive, Flaxseed, Safflower, Sesame

Meat: Occasional red meat. 

This was exactly the Dean Ornish Diet, the diet that nutritionists would put us on to prevent heart disease, obesity, diabetes, all the diseases of civilization.  

37:25  The hieroglyphics of Egyptians were lean and svelte; they looked like they were stick-thin.  But their statuary shows a different picture.  Egyptian men had gigantomastia, big breasts, they got boobs and big bellies from the phytoestrogen in all the wheat that they eat because they all have it.  More so than the women.  

Sir Marc Armand Ruffer found heart disease among mummies,

I cannot therefore at present give any reason why arterial disease should have been so prevalent in Ancient Egypt.  I think, however, that it is interesting to find that it was common and that three thousand years ago it represented the same anatomical characteristics as it does now.    --Sir Marc Armand Ruffer

Ebers Papyrus, 1550 BC

Hatshepsut, 1500, hunter queen.  

At the very end of his presentation, Eades cites a website called ProteinPower.com.  Check it out.