Saw this on John Durant’s blog (see him getting the Colbert & NYT-Style treatment, and finally the LLVLC audio podcast):
“The number one killer of males in captivity is heart disease, much like humans.
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For decades, zoos have fed gorillas bucket loads of high vitamin, high sugar, and high starch foods to make sure their got all their nutrients. At the Cleve…land zoo, they have started feeding food such as romaine lettuce, dandelion greens, endives, alfalfa, green beans, flax seeds, and even tree branches which they strip of bark and leaves. To top it off, they give the gorillas three Centrum Silver multivitamins inside half a banana.
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Now at Cleveland, they spend 50-60 percent of their day eating which is the same amount as in the wild. With all this extra eating, the gorillas have doubled their caloric intake, yet at the same time have dropped 65 pounds each.”
Reminds me of this one line by the oldest well known Paleo-dieter Art De Vany (but he himself does eat fruit):
(4m41s in)
For carbohydrate lately I’ve been eating ~3 jars of blendtec’d greens (be it collards, kale, spinach, frozen brussel sprouts or broccoli) and [half of a peeled] lemon in distilled water on ice w/a large-diameter straw (and sometimes I’ll add 1tsp of dulse to combat the goitrogenic activity of the greens). And 1 sweet potato eaten with fat to properly absorb nutrients (fat and lemon should also lower the glycemic impact). I think giving up fruit (excepting frozen wild blueberries blended) really takes off that visceral belly fat (that and fasting [2] with the help of a pot of fat/energy-mobilizing Rishi tea (you can blend green sencha in water) or Boresha coffee). Regarding the modern-cultivated, plentiful nature of fruits today there’s an old saying and it goes like this:
Sugar is sugar.
Skip the banana.
1 Large Banana = 32g Carbohydrates (17g Sugar)
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/1846/2
1 12oz Coca Cola = 31 Carbohydrate (31g Sugar)
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/foods-from-mcdonalds/6298/2
