“Are you an omnivore?” Fellow students of mine growing up would ask each other questions like this. I have never witnessed anyone call out the irony of identifying and collectively agreeing on lions being carnivores, while human beings questioning each other’s designed diet. The truth is that we have objectified animals so much that we no longer associate with them, even though we are animals ourselves. When one’s looks or behavior gets compared to those of an animal, it is seen so negatively, which feeds into the idea that animals are lesser than humans. Whenever I would’ve informed someone of the fact that we are frugivores, they would always argue that we are herbivores or omnivores. Just because we are capable of consuming meat, it does not mean any of it belongs in our bodies. Do we see lions that have been diagnosed with heart disease? Their bodies are designed to handle all of the meat, therefore their health is not jeopardized in eating it. Our ancestors were eating lots of
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COVID-19. Heart disease. The widely known dangers of red meat consumption. Don’t you get it? Meat has no place in a human’s diet. The false information that animal meat provides nutrition has driven our society to ruin the beautiful things that make up this planet we live in. Properly educating nutritionists, trainers, doctors, etc. on health is pivotal in tackling the many health concerns that most of the human race suffer from today. Sugar, however, is deemed as an unhealthy substance that we should away from in order to obtain optimal health. Simple sugars are glucose, which means it is very much a necessary component of our diets. You may be wondering how people function with a low carb- high protein diet if we need sugar so much, and the answer is that a diet consisting of too much protein and too little sugar leads the human body to go through a process called gluconeogenesis, where protein gets converted to glucose; in other words, these people are making their bodies work ext