I'm careful with fruit
because modern fruit is so much sweeter than its ancestors and is available all year around, but I eat rasperies and other berries in smallish quantities.
Not exact matches
Alongside this stream of
modern philosophic and scientific thought, we have the Christian Church, labouring hard to preserveher inheritance and at last gaining a little in Europe, but mainly
because of the bitter
fruits already ripening in the communist - atheist countries, not
because of any new stirring from within herself.
On top of that, primates can see the color red
because it is the color of ripe
fruit — yet the banana is yellow (the
modern version) when ripe.
It is assumed that
fruits were eaten
because our primate ancestors ate lots of
fruit, and it is assumed that leaves and other plant parts were eaten
because modern - day hunter - gatherers eat them.
It is also naïve in the extreme to believe that
modern day
fruits and vegetables have anywhere NEAR the nutritional profile of wild grown plants tens of thousands of years ago (even organically grown ones), or that
modern farm cows have the mineral content in their meat that wild game did back in our ancestor's time (This point is relevant
because it illustrates the limitations of attempting to duplicate historical diets).
Unfortunately
because of the depleted soil in our
modern world, our
fruits & veggies are lacking in what they used to be.
The
modern diet is also deficient in omega - 3 fatty acids compared to that of a generation ago
because modern farming methods have the effect of increasing the amounts of omega - 6 and oleic acid in vegetables,
fruits, fish, eggs, grains and legumes, while decreasing the amount of valuable triple unsaturated omega - 3.
Because the
modern diet shies away from
fruits and vegetables, our body tends not to function well in an acidic environment.
As America's most - cited judge, Judge Richard Posner, put it last year, «Judges have difficulty understanding
modern technology and jurors have even greater difficulty, yet patent plaintiffs tend to request trial by jury
because they believe that jurors tend to favor patentees, believing that they must be worthy inventors defending the
fruits of their invention against copycats -LSB-...]».