The Single Most Important Question for Your Health Is…

In the field of health and nutrition, there’s lots of messing about by scientists.

I was watching a documentary recently on the new particle accelerator in Geneva… fascinating. They’re going to recreate the “Big Bang.” Anyway, one very clever science bod said…

“Science is what you do when you don’t know what you’re doing.”

I smiled inwardly in a self-satisfied kind of way.

That’s a VERY important quote to remember. If science is looking, you can be damn sure they don’t already have the answers.

It’s especially important to understand that when it comes to nutrition because your health’s at stake.

I was going to call this article “Who is better for your health–a dietician or an anthropologist?” And here’s why..

Did you know you’ve got a super family? No, I’m not saying your Granny Edith and Aunt Maud are fantastic!

I’m sure they are, but no… I’m talking biology here! :-)

Our superfamily is called “Hominoid” and as such we have cousins closely related to us—the “Great Apes”—chimps, gorillas, orangutans and gibbons.

Humans and our closest cousins, the chimpanzees. have a common ancestor from around 5 to 8 million years ago. We went our separate ways and a lot has happened between then and now. But even after all that time, our genetics and the genetics of chimps are still very close.

We share over 98% of genes with chimpanzees and the less well known, and less well studied—bonobos. The bonobo is actually closest to us genetically.

You only have to look at chimps to see how close they are to us… 5 fingers, 5 toes and all that. Their digestive systems are also very similar to ours.

Now that we humans are oh so civilized, we’ve lost our connection to nature. And that’s why the study of our closest relatives is so important. They can give us important clues as to where we’re going wrong.

It’s a bizarre situation when you really think about it. We dominate this planet entirely. We hold in our hands the power over almost every living thing and yet we don’t know what to eat!

Believe me, we don’t.

Nutritional science is a hot-bed of controversy and opinions vary from one extreme to the other. Nutrition is also full of many red herrings which are causing a lot of confusion.

The study of species so incredibly similar to us is absolutely invaluable in overcoming our problems of health and the chronic disease epidemic.

Science is well in on the act, but I feel it’s fragmented. The anthropologists aren’t talking to the nutritionists it seems!

It was wonderful to see The Evo Diet experiment on the BBC. It was a fun look at some out of shape humans eating an ape diet and their health improved tremendously in only a few days.

Of course, we need to go further and look not only at apes but also our more recent evolution to finally nail this problem and make no mistake—it is a problem! Most of humanities’ ills have their root cause in poor nutrition.

A bold claim I know but it’s true.

Ape diets are a great start into exploring optimum nutrition for humans. We can tweak from there based on archaeology, what is known about human micronutrient needs and so on.

The solutions MUST be simple. There aren’t too many natural food groups—only plant foods, fruits, leaves, flowers, nuts, seeds, piths etc and animal foods. It’s simply a matter of deciding how much of each we need to be in tip-top shape.

There is one main important question in nutrition which is “The single most important question for your health” and that is…

“What is a natural diet for humans?”

The problem is that very few people, even nutrition professionals, are actually asking this question. They can’t see the “wood” for the “trees.” There is so much fluff and mis-information on this subject.

Many thanks to Dave Liggett for the use of his beautiful bonobo photographs.

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