Natural Similarities

When it comes to nutrition, there are a lot of conflicting opinions as to how and what the human race should and should not eat. Books on diet and nutrition are abundant and it could leave the simple passerby confused at best.  One such book even suggests that you should eat according to your blood type, suggesting that difference is enough to change your nutritional needs.  It is a difference, but if you think about it, we all have so much more in common that we have different.

The main things that differ are blood type, eye color, hair color, height and weight. The parts that are similar are the heart that pumps our blood, the structure of our nervous system, the length of our digestive tract and how it’s organized, and even our teeth.  Let’s look at a few of those similarities and compare them with nature.

There are a few distinctive traits that are a common thread throughout the animal kingdom.  Carnivores are meat eaters and herbivores are plant eaters. Carnivores have rows of sharp teeth intended for tearing and shredding the meat that they encounter.  They have claws for taking down their prey.  Internally, they have a short intestinal track that is roughly the length of their body, built this way so as to not process high fiber meals.  Herbivores are different.

Herbivores have flat grinding surfaces on their teeth for chewing their food.  They don’t have claws.  And they have a digestive track that averages roughly six times the length of their body.  This is a much better design for processing fiber to push things along.  Meat, not having fiber, doesn’t travel as well through a digestive track this long.  It needs to get through a system quicker.

Think about it.  Sure there are differences from person to person, but when it comes to what you eat, make wise choices as to what you put into your body.  Out of 32 teeth, only four have the capability to tear.  You have much better instincts to grab the apple off the tree rather than jump over the fence and chase down the dog in the next yard.  It’s okay to recognize differences, but when it comes to what you eat, there are so many greater natural similarities.