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09-26-2007 11:29 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Max Power
09-26-2007 10:33 AM

It is possible to get all the nutrition you need as a adult from fruits, vegetables, pulses, lentils and nuts, providing you eat the correct varieties of it. Assuming he's doing this, he'll do himself no harm and be consuming less fat, less simple sugars, and more fibre which will probably benefit him in the long run.
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As for his reasons? They are all gibberish.
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09-27-2007 5:20 AM 		Reply to: Message 6 by Modulous
09-26-2007 12:16 PM

Re: Food for thought
Crash raised a better point - but I'd like to raise an auxiliary one. Our ancestors could produce their own Vitamin C. Once our ancestors were able to secure for themselves a steady supply of Vitamin C elsewhere (ie diet), then the gene was no longer needed. There was no selective pressure for the gene to function and the broken gene fixated in the population (indeed - using the body's resources to manufacturer Vitamin C might have been slightly more costly than just eating fruit - who knows?).
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I'm pretty sure we share our defect in the gene for Vitamin C production with Chimpanzees, implying that the defect occured before the human-chimp split.
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09-27-2007 5:31 AM 		Reply to: Message 17 by crashfrog
09-26-2007 7:20 PM

Yeah most of the reasons for buying organic vegetables are bunk. There's no reason to think they're better for you, the taste differences are marginal at best and this nonsense about 'naturalness' is just hippy-shit.
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However, I buy organic vegetables anyway. Why? Because organic farming produces a more biodiverse landscape than traditional farming.
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09-27-2007 10:57 AM 		Reply to: Message 27 by macaroniandcheese
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Re: Food for thought
Huh? What's that got to do with anything?
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09-27-2007 11:01 AM 		Reply to: Message 38 by Modulous
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Re: Food for thought
Okay.
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I'd taken your message to imply that it occured since our paelolithic ancestors - which is who people are generally talk about when they takl about "ancestoral diets".
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09-27-2007 11:18 AM 		Reply to: Message 42 by Kitsune
09-27-2007 11:02 AM

Re: Food for thought
Well, most mammals can make vitamin C, including some of the great apes. There's a genetic defect we share with chimps that prevents us from doing so. So, yes, it's pretty certain we had an ancestor that could because otherwise it'd have to evolved all over the place in the recent past.
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