food for health and food combining for health

During his evolutionary development over millions of years in the rain forests of the African continent, man has evolved with a physical requirement for food of plant origin, not animal origin. Much is made of the image of pre-historic man using guile and expertise to kill animals for food, but while there may be some element of truth in this contention, it is clear that the mastery of fire was necessary to convert raw flesh foods into something more palatable. One can say without fear of contradiction that there are not too many humans, either in the present day or in the misty pasts of history, who would be prepared to kill an animal and consume its raw flesh at the moment of death as would any meat-eating predator. That this idea of consuming raw flesh is so repellant to most of us is a clear indication that man is not naturally carnivorous. The mastery of fire to disguise the taste and texture of raw meat was clearly a pressing necessity and indeed it was in mastering fire that man showed the creativity and intelligence which millions of years of evolution had shaped him for - and all on a plant food diet!

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