How the Glycemic Index Affects Our Species' Evolution

Since the introduction of agriculture our species has not evolved at all! Our survival skills have degraded dramatically. Coincidence? Who can say for certain? Researchers believe that the human species has well adapted to survive on pre-agricultural foods such as fruits, vegetables, roots, legumes, nuts, seeds, fertile eggs, marine foods and raw dairy. Part of my primal eating approach requires that we go back and examine what pre-agricultural man consumed and how. The evidence shows that the foods man ate in pre-agricultural times were rich in nutrients that support and enhance the body's command center - the neural, glandular and hormonal systems - all together. Primitive foods, rich in flavonoids, saccharides, indoles, sterols and other phytonutrients, helped sustain the integrity of the organs that regulate all metabolic systems within the body. Genetic evolution ceased at about the time men started cultivating food artificially, when humans began growing grains and raising farm animals. The early human diet was overall, amazingly low glycemic. Over time there has been a gradual increase in the glycemic index of food. The glycemic index accelerated radically and rapidly with the introduction of refined flour and sugar into the diet. Humans have never fully adapted to a large consumption of high glycemic, refined and processed foods. This is why today we suffer from an epidemic of blood sugar problems, diabetes, obesity and a host of insulin-related disorders and diseases. If we don't try to reverse this trend - if we continue to deny what we have originally evolved from, as well as deny eating the foods that we have originally adapted to, we will perpetuate the degradation of our species to virtual extinction.