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Lessons from Jon Barron
What Diet Works Best for Humans    In this week's excerpt from Lessons from the Miracle Doctors, Jon Barron lays out the scientific basis for determining what diet works best for humans.
 "Let's begin by cutting through all the nonsense and take a look at what kinds of food our bodies were designed to handle, then figure out what that means for us today. And the best way to do that is by first identifying the key characteristics of our "eating and digestive" systems, then seeing which animals we match up with and what they eat. The key indicators that we're going to look at are the teeth, the stomach, and the length of the digestive tract. The human eating machine looks like this: - Teeth: all of our teeth are nearly of the same height. Our canines project only a small amount, and our molars are broad-topped.
- Stomach: the human stomach is slightly elongated, approximating the shape of a kidney bean.
- Digestive tract: the average adult has a digestive tract (measured from mouth to anus) about 30–33 feet long. This means that the ratio of the length of a person's digestive tract as compared to their height (also measured from mouth to anus) is approximately 10–12 times the length of their body.
Carnivores (Meat Eaters): Lions, Tigers, Etc.
The first thing you notice about carnivores is that their teeth are nothing like those found in humans. They have huge canines for striking and seizing prey, pointed incisors for removing meat from bones, and molars and premolars with cusps for shredding muscle fiber. In carnivores, the teeth of the upper jaw slide past the outside of the lower jaw so that prey is caught in a vice-like grip. In general, carnivores don't chew much; mostly, they just tear chunks off and swallow them whole.
An examination of the carnivore intestinal tract reveals a short (relative to the length of their body) bowel for fast transit of waste out of the body. The actual length of the carnivore bowel is approximately 3–5 times the length of the body—again measured from mouth to anus—a ratio less than half that found in humans. Fast transit of waste for carnivores is essential for two reasons. The faster the transit, the less opportunity for parasites to take hold. Also, meat tends to putrefy in the intestinal tract, so fast transit limits exposure to the byproducts of putrefaction.
Most of the digestive process occurs in the carnivore's stomach (which is a round, sack-shaped structure with a high concentration of acid salts for digesting animal muscle and bone). Food usually remains for days at a time in a carnivore's stomach while it is digested (to a large extent) by enzymes present in the raw meat itself (a process called autolytic digestion). In addition, carnivores are adapted to process huge amounts of food at a time (up to 25 percent of their body weight or more), then eat nothing for days at a time. This doesn't sound very much like the human digestive process (except on all-you-can-eat nights at the Trough and Brew Restaurant)."
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