Re: What's the Deal with Carbohydrates?

"Prisoner at War" <prisoner_at_war@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Anyway, I guess I'm just wondering how carbs got to the top of the
> food pyramid, so to speak. They say meat protein probably helped our
> brains gain in size over millions of years. What's the evolutionary
> point of carbs?


Do you have any doubt that if sugar were around, our caveman ancestors
wouldn't have loved it? It's not that we evolved to need carbs, carbs are
addictive.


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"Glassman@work" <jksinrod*SPAM*@aol.com> wrote in
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> "Prisoner at War" <prisoner_at_war@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> Anyway, I guess I'm just wondering how carbs got to the top of
>> the food pyramid, so to speak. They say meat protein probably
>> helped our brains gain in size over millions of years. What's
>> the evolutionary point of carbs?
>
>
> Do you have any doubt that if sugar were around, our caveman
> ancestors
> wouldn't have loved it? It's not that we evolved to need carbs,
> carbs are addictive.
>
>

Love of sugar seems common in a lot of (all?) mammals. Horses and dogs
likes it, bears in zoos too often begs for candy, and I've met some
rabbits that were a threat to any candy left below (human) eye level.


Lisbeth.

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