We are built to be frugivorous

From the natural point of view, health depends on how much we put ourselves in relation and harmony with the factors set out by Nature.

One of the major factors for building and maintaining health is, of course, food. A careful study of our structural physiology can tell us what would be our ancestral diet related to an “harmonic health”. Consequently we shall try to avoid the food, as much as we can, that is too much different from the one we should dispose. The more we move away from the natural order, the more we do not stick to the system we are built for, and the more we are exposed to diseases.

The human being is classified belonging to the family of Primates, which includes also the Anthropoids, i.e. the monkeys . Our physiological characteristics are very similar to the monkeys' ones. In the 98% of the cases, monkeys feed themselves with fresh fruits, vegetables and small sprouts, berries and nuts, and only rarely with tiny animals (easy to catch by hands and without hard skin) or some other small insects living on the plants.
 

 
The physiology of the human being has the following characteristics, that show us how much the vegetarian diet is right and the carnivorous wrong:

1. the pores on the skin are present in large quantities all over the body, while all carnivores have very few (sweat by the tongue)
2. the gastric juices may produce only 1/5 of hydrochloric acid in comparison to a carnivore
3. the bowel is 12 times the length of the body while the carnivorous one is only 3, given that the meat tends to putrefy in a long bowel transit
4. the bowel works by peristaltic movements, which are stimulated by plant fibers; meat does not have fibers for doing the same and therefore carnivores have a short bowel
5. in a long bowel, such as in the humans, meat or fish , with their fat and other components such as collagen, tend to stick on the walls, creating putrefying matters and inflammations
6. saliva and urine are alkaline in humans, while carnivores have them acidic
7. saliva contains ptyalin that permits to digest easily the starches, something not present in carnivores
8. the molar teeth are useful to chew nuts or sprouts, not suitable for pulping the flesh
9. the canine teeth are sharp enough just only to open the fruits, but not so sharp and hooked to pluck up the meat
10. incisors are well developed to affect especially the fruit, while in carnivores are poorly developed
11. our nails are not retractable and are not even hooked, since they serve to break and open fruits and cut some small vegetables
12. the color vision of frugivorous animals can recognize ripe fruits that stands out among the green leaves, while the carnivores and omnivores and herbivores do not have this possibility
13. our stomach is with duodenum, while in carnivores is simple
14. the placenta is discoid and not zoniforme as carnivores
15. our sense of smell is not so powerful to be able to search animals to eat, but by smell we can understand if a fruit is good or not
16. we use the two legs to move and not four paws like animals, as they need to run for hunting, to capture and kill another animal
17. we have got the arms to climb trees and pick the food, using all fingers that are prehensile.

If we consider what Nature gave to us, it should be clear which is the best approach we should have in food. Follow us to the next post: "But then we should be eating almost exclusively fruit?"