I hear what your saying.  Ya know, Im just always thinking about the various pieces of human history and evolution and wondering about nutrition.....    and to be truly healthy as possible you would have to have access to different foods from different parts of your evolutionary history.  Which is impossible since obviously you can only be in one place at one time  ...     I am always constantly questioning if im doing the right thing when im eating the various fruits and vegetables I do.... We grow and mass produce the fruits and vegetables we do because....? They are parts of our history and the ones that are best for us?  or are we missing various plants and fruits...  Im basically a European mutt living in the US trying to use his instincts.... CONFUSING!  I some times wonder how wild african fruit and plants from the rainforest could benefit me.   or random plants ive never heard of from the Mediterranean, etc .. 

Just In general.  I am using the instincto approach to my diet.   Starting thinking about various periods of human evolution ,diet, what made us human, and an individual instincto approach.  Why do we grow the foods we do?  Why kale?  why not some leaves from a tree in the rainforest? Why dont i just eat literally like a chimp does.. What made us human and why do we choose to grow the foods we do? Did eating all these various new fruits and melons and veggies from new places make us human?

Have we as humans over the span of life selected the healthiest fruits and vegetables to grow?   Not talking GMO
but there is a reason we eat thing like lemons, cucumbers, celery, ,melon , etc. instead of leaves and figs, and roots.

Im just wondering why we have chose to grow the foods we do and if they are the ones that we should be eating

I live in the midwest.  My body craves cantaloupe, coconuts, etc... i cant do that local

Question.. DId humans most likely ever have an "optimal habitat" for a long period of time?  Or did they always have to deal with constant climate change?

anyways

not one single human being on earth can survive a cold winter with no clothing , or human shelter.   Now if we didnt start wearing clothes would we have grown a ton of hair or have kept more hair to survive bitter temperatures?  Maybe.. but the majority of us are pretty  hairless.... So we havent really "adapted" to cold weather.. IMO we are meant to live somewhere where we can maintain a pretty constant body temperature between 60-85 degrees.  I know we can live anywhere by "adapting" but.. what makes it optimal?  Im talking about longevity and being healthy all the time....

If you lived in Alaska of course your going to be eating what grows there... If you live in South America you eat what grows there... but is there a difference in health?  Or maybe humans are meant to explore and travel the world and eat anything.. Idk just some foggy questions and statements I had.

So what is it about the blue zones then?   Areas in the world where people live the longest and healthiest..
What do they all have in common?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone

    Okinawa, Japan
    Sardinia, Italy
    Loma Linda, California
    Nicoya, Costa Rica
    Ikaria, Greece



They are all coastal towns.   With spectacular ocean and land views. 

Iguana and who ever else.  I still have this question from an evolutionary stand point about eating.

How have we come to need these foods from all over the world if we all have different ancestors who may have not been to those part of the world?  How does a person of African or Asian Ancestry benefit from eating North American or European foods (healthy food) and vice versa. I though foods that we need were just adaptations from our surroundings

Ive been wondering about where humans should be living. Where is our actual natural habitat?
I know all about Blue Zones and the longevity that humans have who live there....but

Where should we be living?
For years I have been pondering about Homo Sapiens natural habitat. This includes all aspects from lifestyle to nutrition to sun exposure, etc....

It started when i was getting into instinctive nutrition. I was eating a lemon thinking... Why does my body love citrus so much? Did my ancestors love citrus! Where did they live? Did they live in some type of bountiful utopia? Where they nomadic travelers?

So, after a few few more weeks of studying diet, nutrition and human instincts I started heavily researching evolution again.. in attempt to shed some light on some questions Ive always had about where we are meant to live. One theory that will always make the most since to me is the most popular "Out of Africa" theory. Simply stated some of our ape like ancestors stumbled out of the African Rainforest (for what ever reason) and onto the African savanna. Here they adapted and explored new ways of living and surviving. So a big part of our evolutionary history happened in the African Savanna! So is the African Savanna where we should be living? Is this where all the food we should be eating is?

Arent all the other primates in optimal habitats for there specific needs?


Or does each specific nationality or "type" of person have a location that fits them best?
I am tall and skinny and have the body type built for the African Savanna or somewhere hot...
but I am Caucasian and would my skin not be best suited for a northern climate?


So once again
Where is our natural/optimal habitat
Where should we be living?
Would we thrive best in Africa?

All I know is that we were meant to live somewhere warm... Somewhere with a constant tempearture around 70 degrees or so
Anopsology

After eating this way for a long time will you be able to predict what foods you will want?  Or do you always buy a big variety and test?  I have trouble deciding what to buy

And How do you guys all feel after a long time on the Instincto Diet?

Id like to bring up this thread again..

Does it not make sense that we are supposed to be eating foods that grow around us?  Thats what the earth had provided for animals to survive in those conditions?  (if we lived outside)

but by using heated shelter we kind of  are trying to re create our natural environment ..... so we still do need some of these non local foods

So should i buy a water filter if im going to be cleaning anything as far as produce?  My water smells like chlorine.  and lately ive been really been able to notice the smell

so when i go to the store (i can afford whatever i want at the moment)  buy as many fruits and vegetables as I want and test which ones I like the best and need?

thanks!  Ive been craving alot of berries, citrus(lemons, limes), and leafy greens lately.    I buy them all organic but from a grocery store/market.  Should I be washing this organic produce from the grocery store?

And i do plan on buying from the farmers market for some of my foods when it opens up again this spring.. Do I need to wash these foods from there?