London, UK -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/25/2014 -- Finally the support for saturated fats is being recognised and supported by the medical and scientific worlds. However, blaming our health issues on high carbohydrates is a reductionistic way of thinking that can only serve those that can profit from such a way of thinking, Dean Griffiths, Executive Wellbeing Consultant points out.

“We only have to look at the variety of diets in the ingenious tribes around the world to realise that we are still looking at this the wrong way.”, the Watchfit expert continues.

The Okinawans people of Japan, until recently, enjoyed long lives living on a diet of vegetables, sea vegetables, fish, rice, and poultry.

The Hunza people of Pakistan, who lived similarly long lives eating grains, vegetables, fruits and yogurt.

And at the other end of the scale, there are the Siberian Eskimos, who ate 90-95% animal foods like whale and seal blubber.

And finally, the Q’ero of Peru, who would eat mainly a diet consisting of potatoes, chew coca leaves, and occasionally eat trout and alpaca.

So, there are two aspects that are not mentioned when it comes to the way humans eat. Biochemical Individuality and Evolutionary Biology.

Biochemical Individuality

Biochemical individuality refers to the unique nutritional needs each person has, based on their genetics, lifestyle, and environmental exposure to various stressors.

Our Biochemistry is a complex web of interactions that controls the way our body uses nutrients such as amino acids, which are the building blocks of protein, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, and fats, which all help one’s body to function at an optimal level. Amino acids, for example, are used to produce hormones, skin, and bone. For one’s biochemistry to function properly, the body requires the right amounts and proportions of nutrients.

Nutrition is still largely based on what the food properties are and how much that would benefit the population as a whole, rather than on how specific that nutrient was for any given individual.

People have bodies that are built in different ways. Each individual looks different, and acts different. So, it's a true fact that each separate person is unique. This means that the amount of a certain nutrient the average person requires may not be the optimal amount some other person needs for good health.

The first theory of biochemical individuality concept was introduced by an English physician, Sir Archibald Garrod in 1908, but coined by Nutritionist Biochemist Roger Williams, whose work in the 1940 and 50’s led to the book Biochemical Individuality.

Evolutionary Biology

Eating like a cave man is being hailed by some as an ideal lifestyle. The Paleo Diet, based on the idea that our bodies have not adapted sufficiently to eat foods that weren’t available 10,000 years ago, so focusing on eating meat, fruits and vegetables and avoiding grains and dairy, to a certain degree holds a lot of truth to it, but suggests a notion that the population was better off before agriculture, or civilization, or the Industrial Revolution.

Although compared to the typical western style diet, adopting this way of eating would certainly add more value, it denies that as human beings we have evolved. As best-selling author, Journalist and activist Michael Pollan says, we shouldn’t eat anything our great-great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food, so eating grains that are farmed the right way i.e. sprouting process or consuming raw dairy would give a more of a balanced way of eating that is in true alignment with our Evolutionary Biology, especially when applied with Biochemical Individuality.

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