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what does /fit/ think of the warrior diet?

personally, i think it's full of shit. it has very few things in it that i agree with.
>> never knows best !!J6+ElFR17be
Diets are full of shit.
>> Anonymous
I do it from a mental toughening perspective every few months for a couple days. Other than that, its nothing special.
>> Anonymous
I have heard of this, but the basic premise is to work with what our bodies were evolved to do, eat like fucking animals. Does an animal eat three square meals a day and processed carbohydrates? No. And biologically, neither should we. Our bodies over millions of years have adapted to periods of starvation and periods of glut. The shit we have now is a recent addition and we have not yet biologically caught up.
>> Anonymous
>>88447

This is true, but if I'm correct the Warrior Diet takes a dogmatic approach in eating only one large meal at the end of the day. I believe something that is more agreeable to what you just said would be something like Intermittant Fasting.
>> Anonymous
>>88447
we'll never catch up, there's no reason to evolve because nobody is really dying on large scales in most civilized areas thanks to modern medicine and first aid practices.

We aren't going to evolve.
>> Anonymous
>>88451
The Warrior Diet also puts a big emphasis on grazing as well though: eating essentially a constant stream of fruits and vegetables through the day.

It's reasonable and functional if it isn't taken too far to extremes. I know personally, I can agree with the fact that eating heavy puts me in a state of glut and sloth so that I'm less productive. At the same time if I get too hungry I become useless at everything except finding something to eat. I think the Warrior Diet is meant to capture that happy medium between states, neither hungry nor full, where you operate at your peak capacity all day, then take in a big bout of protein and nutrients at the end of the day when it's safe to go into that slothlike mode. When I first read the book on the Warrior Diet, I got the impression that you were meant to be hungry all day, and full at night, I think my new understanding of it is more reasonable and probably more accurate.
>> Anonymous
>>88459here.

Also, just because it works with our natural tendencies, doesn't mean it's the most effective way.

It is possible(and seems likely) that our bodies respond better to the current modern practices of exercise just out of chance. Also, these methods have likely been tested by sports scientists and if that were the way it worked best, we'd probably know.

Chances are, the body is adaptive to a variety of possible human life styles not just survival man or tribesman life.
>> Anonymous
>>88464

Agreed, the things humans do with our bodies now would astound some of our caveman ancestors. Like look at bodybuilders, powerlifters, and marathon runners, a paleolithic man would never dream of seeing such large, strong, or high endurance people in his time.
>> Anonymous
>>88475
An early caveman would also never conceive of a human living beyond 30 years old.

Modern diets, exercise, and medicine FTW.
>> Anonymous
>>88479
no, tribal comunities have people who live to be quite old.

Low life expectancy is due to hygiene problems, lack of food, and shitty water. Cavemen probably rocked out as far as life expectancy goes, except for the ones who fell off things and got eaten by shit.
>> Anonymous
>>88479
>>88480

Hunter gatherers are different than neolithic farmers. H/G lived longer, healthy lives due to their diet than early farming communities, but the hardships of daily living made it difficult to grow old and have many children. Farming communities allowed people to have more children when raised in a more predictable and stable environment, but these people were more sickly due to poorer diet and the disease that would spring up from staying in one place to long.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>88460
i eat a fuckton at every sitting but don't get tired. why? because i choose my foods.

i think the anabolic diet is a better go, but even then i eat more fruit to complement. works very well.

i don't buy the fasting approach because i believe in optimisation and starving yourself isn't optimal. eating the correct foods in appropriate amounts is optimal, and the 'modern' diet doesn't contain them. show me an olympic/international level strength or athletics competitor that got to were they are today on that diet and i might reconsider.

>>88480
they have like one. in the modern world, it's like most people.

>>88483
>>longer, healthy lives due to their diet than early farming communities, but the hardships of daily living made it difficult to grow old and have many children

you just contradicted yourself. i think this is a pet belief of yours and i don't think you can back it up. if they're dying young how do you know they are healthier than others? what is your metric?
>> Anonymous
You will gain shitall muscle with this diet
>> Anonymous
>>88540

>you just contradicted yourself. i think this is a pet belief of yours and i don't think you can back it up. if they're dying young how do you know they are healthier than others? what is your metric?

Both the farmers and hunter gatherers were dying young. H/G's and neolithic farmers both didn't have antibiotics to kill off infectious diseases, but their better quality foods (fruits, vegetables, lean meat) allowed them to live healthier lives than agrarian societies (which subsisted mainly on grains). Today, many modern humans eat the staples of the neolithic farmers, but we have antibiotics and other medical advances to keep us alive for longer ages than at any other time in history. But the un-nutritious foods that we eat now cause 'civilization' diseases (heart disease, diabetes, etc) that the H/G never had to deal with. H/G was inefficient from the viewpoint that too much energy was invested in finding food to advance culture and technology. Farming allowed plentiful food to be had which allowed for rapid advancement, although health was the price that was traded off.
>> Anonymous
>>88570
if they were both dying young 5000 years ago (when agriculture became common in the fertile crescent) then how do you know hunter gatherers were more healthy?

the grains used back then are not the high-gluten varieties we have now, and we eat much more of them than has historically been the case.
>> Anonymous
>>88592

It's impossible to precisely know, unless we had a time machine, but from analyzing the diets of what's left of modern hunter gatherer tribes, it's been inferred that these people share relatively similar diets to the H/G's of old. The H/G tribes today are pretty healthy, just from nutrition alone without modern medicine.
>> Anonymous
>>88592
http://www.beyondveg.com/nicholson-w/angel-1984/angel-1984-1a.shtml

I wouldnt know how good this source is but check it out.
>> Anonymous
>>88609
That correlates with some other research I've read about man declining in height and lifespan upon the discovery and reliance on agriculture. In your skinny face, vegfags.
>> Anonymous
>>88618

The good thing about agriculture is that it is indirectly responsible for the internetz.
>> Anonymous
>>88618
Please post the height data if you don't mind.
>> Anonymous
>>88625
http://www.vegetariansareevil.com/aggression.html

This wasn't the exact article I saw but it's on this site somewhere.
>> Anonymous
I was dicking around in PubMed and google, here are some scientific articles backing (and some disagreeing) paleolithic diets and intermittent fasting.

Effect of intermittent fasting and refeeding on insulin action in healthy men.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16051710?ordinalpos=10&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pub
med_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
A Paleolithic diet confers higher insulin sensitivity, lower C-reactive protein and lower blood pressure than a cereal-based diet in domestic pigs.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17081292?ordinalpos=4&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubm
ed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Also, Wikipedia has a shitload of sources in their "Paleolithic diet" section.
>> Anonymous
>>88603
We can check their dentition and bones for defect due to nutrition.