THE PERFECT HUMAN DIET

Before going into this, look at the bad reviews. They are emotional and contain no facts other than facts made up by the people posting them. This is a problem laid out in the first few minutes of this movie, how most fad diets are based on the creators 'feeling like the diet works' and the 'don't confuse me with the facts' type of attitude. I'm not saying 'go Atkins' or 'live by the glycemic index' and I am not saying 'vegans are evil'. Vegans are almost always misguided emotional people who love their 'movement' but they must be ignored if you want to live a healthy life.A point in this movie about 40 minutes in that hits home with me is when a guy said he went to a farmers co-op to talk about how farmers fatten animals. I have and still do raise poultry my whole life and for years my family raised cattle when I was younger. When the man in this documentary looked at the guidelines how to mix feed to fatten animals, it was almost spot on with the FDA food pyramid/modern food circle suggested to Americans to eat 'healthy'. How can the diet pattern that is designed to fatten cattle and pigs be considered a good weight loss plan for humans?Now my personal story: one year we had a whole cow in the freezer. This was the same year I decided to lose weight since at the age of 19 I weighed 270 lbs. My father predicted that all the meat from the cow would last us right about a year. Well, what I did was take to the habit of eating meat about twice a day as the basis of my meals, usually breakfast and supper. I would grill steaks or roasts or even the trashy cuts of beef that should be ground up into burgers on the grill using some of our firewood, eat it for supper, then eat the leftovers the next morning for breakfast. We ran low on meat in 5-6 months and my father complained a bit, but he said it was worth it. I was a lean 190lbs and ran an 8 minute mile, did the first pull-ups of my entire life during this time, and was able to crank out 50 push-ups on demand without shaking afterward.Fast forward to right now. After a back and knee injury I am around 260lbs and my legs hurt from what I can tell is the excess weight. For the past month I walked 3-4 miles a day at the park 3-5 times a week and I lost no weight, but my legs are larger. I consider this a minimal but welcome gain since muscle is heavier than fat. I watched this video out of curiosity and it keeps reminding me of when I ate roasts, steaks, and cheap cuts of beef by cooking it all over a fire and this made up 66%-75% of my diet at the time. I had rapid weight loss and muscle gain, and it felt really good. This past week I started a meat-based diet and I had dropped 5lbs in this 7-day period. That is more progress than a month of hard work, the exercise as the same the diet is all that changed. I'm not promoting any fad or book-based diets, in fact the only book I have in this category is 'The Abs Diet' by David Zinczenko and I skip it's diet section and use it's fantastic exercise guide. It works, That is all that should matter to you. I know it's all that matters to me.

Paleo, Carnivore, Lion diet all part of this 2 million year old "FAD" diet. I stopped the 5 medications above in one week and lost the weight over time. I stopped the medications as they were pushing my blood pressure and blood sugar way to low to be functional. I reversed multiple metabolic diseases eating the way mankind has eaten for 2 million years. This movie is clean, simple, and shows the actual science of what we have eaten since we became human all those years ago. This movie is also heresy - would reverse the explosion of metabolic diseases - destroy the processed food industry - and destroy many of the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. Read the one star comments and you will see zealots whose core values have been dumped on. They WILL NOT stand for it. I believe people can eat a variety of foods and be healthy. But I believe when you get a metabolic disease from eating modern versions of processed foods - you have to fix your own problems with Paleo, carnivore, or lion. No one will help you or support you as you are going against the religious cannon of modern deadly dietary guidelines. I didn't believe the claims until I tried it for 3 months. Results are results and facts are facts.

When I first started watching this movie it seemed like it would be a nice well rounded look at diets around the world, but alas, it is just paleo diet propaganda. The movie contained a lot of interesting information, but the conclusions drawn from that information are pretty flawed. For instance, Cows have several stomachs. Lions have one stomach. We have one stomach, therefore we are carnivores. That is so over simplified as to be ridiculous. To be fair, I have heard a similar argument made by vegans saying that our lack of claws and pointy teeth mean that we are herbivores. Obviously, they're both wrong. As any child can tell you, we are omnivores. We can eat both. If we couldn't, there wouldn't be so much debate over whether or not we should.I have a much harder time swallowing the paleo argument than I do the vegetarian/vegan one however, and this is why.The paleo diet is touted as being the solution to all of our modern dietary problems and the obesity epidemic. According to the experts in this documentary, our health was all downhill once agriculture came into the picture. The problem is, our modern diet and obesity issues are just that, modern. We didn't have these issues 100 years ago, so it seems more likely that a change in our diet occurring sometime more recently than the advent of agriculture is to blame.I also take issue with the wheat is evil argument. If we never ate wheat before agriculture, then why would it have been cultivated in the first place? It just makes no sense. "Oh yay! We can plant food now! We don't have to forage anymore! We could plant some berry bushes or something, but why don't we plant this weird stuff that we've never actually tried eating before instead!" It seems pretty unlikely to me.The other problem is, it is impossible to eat as a paleolithic human in the modern era. As one of the experts in the documentary stated, paleolithic humans ate the whole animal. They ate the organs, and even the bone marrow. That makes sense because that is where all the nutrients in animals are. On a modern day live stock animal, organs also contain a build up of all kinds of nasty chemicals that the animal had been fed over the course of its lifetime, in quantities much larger than can be found in the muscle tissue. So, not only is it kind of gross to the majority of modern pallets to eat organ meat regularly, it's also not likely the healthiest of activities.Finally, if you're not aware already, seriously google this, the modern livestock industry does enormous harm to the environment. We need to move forward, and the future requires people to eat less meat, not more.I feel the need to mention that I gave this movie 1 star, not just because I don't agree with the opinions, but mostly because they were presented as fact, and if you aren't paying attention, it seems like it is fact. It's not though. It's just more opinions with information manipulated to support those opinions. I'm not saying the paleo diet isn't healthy. It may be, but so is any diet that is low in sugar and high in natural foods. Actually, it surprised me how little they talked about the health of the diet. Most of the documentary seemed to focus on proving how early humans ate. The only discussion of the actual health was anecdotal. If you are paleo and that works for you, then great. I'm happy you're healthy and feeling good, but that doesn't make this crappy documentary any better. Actually it makes it worse, because if the diet really is healthy, they did a poor job of proving it.

Vraiment intéressent.

Finally some science not theory behind a human diet. What we ate, not what we should eat. Lets you make up your own mind.

Difficult to remember.

this film was a great watch and help to see a different side to the diet world. you need to see this. great film.

so boring