Thanks for the article! I tagged it right away. Fish, fruit and vegetables? I only wish that someone would pay me to eat this! Imagine combining this with exercise. Where do I sign up?

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Sounds a lot like the Eat to Live diet (http://www.drfuhrman.com/weightloss/about.aspx).

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apes can cook fish?? I think we might need to reassert out dominance sometime soon.

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Well fed animals are healthier than the average human,so there may be something about eating some,but not everything,food that animals eat

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This is how I've eaten for years. I have 3 small boys, as well as work long full-time hours. Before, I never had energy, got colds frequently and felt crappy constantly. I now NEVER have to worry about my weight - I've weighed a constant 52kg in between kids. Pretty good considering I come from a morbidly obese family! Joke is, my family think I'm crazy and that I'll waste away without 'proper food'!

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Remember that this was for 12 days. What was it like in the long term? I think that our ancestors took to eating hooved animals for a reason, and evolved to fit that diet.

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Doesnt Ape Meat taste pretty good?
Sprinkled with a litte nuts and berries.

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I did this "change" in my diet over a year ago and lost 30 pounds. Now I am the size I was in highschool. I am 35 and have two kids. I continue and will continue to eat like an ape.

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I lost 15 pounds after eating wholefoods that I ordered from http://www.farminabag.com I purchased the Nu Yu resolution kit and did the detox for the 1st few days. I am eating the food in the kit along w/fruits and veggies. It is very satisfying and filling, I also got rid of the cravings for junk. Check out the site and read the ingredients, sometimes we need to back track to get ahead,and to lose in order to win.~`:-joanna

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I've been on this diet for a month, It works! I only eat bananas, apples, grapes, celery, carrots, and meats and cheese. No processed foods, no bread or starches. I've lost 22 lbs and feel much better. I think the monkeys are smarter than us and live better. Ed

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I eat like an ape because I am one

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I too have been using the ape diet the last year. The only negative has been a tendency to throw poop at people walking by the house.

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How lazy am I? This sounds great if someone would prepare the menu for me. I have no imagination with fresh fruits and veggies; No idea how to not overcook fish. The diet idea sounds wonderful, but I am too stuck in my ways to change. Plus the cost of fresh fruits, veggies and fish is too much for a minimum wage girl like me.

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What is this fascination with apes? Why does everyone seem to want to "devolve" instead of "evolve." This takes its form in things like attempts to find out how close in intelligence chimpanzees are to humans. For centuries, men tried to PRO-gress. This current generation, with its nonsensical left-wing agenda, seems to want to RE-gress. I could care LESS how apes eat. I'll eat how I want to eat!

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The raw diet appears to be very good, and has all the enzemes that cooked food does not. The chimps, I understand on occation kill and eat smaller monkeys.
Of course they do not cook the meat, also retaining the enzemes.
Frank

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I eat like an ape now. That's because I am an ape, I know how to type you see....I am at the local zoo under some experiment thing again. I hope I don't get stuck in some other kinds of crap testing. My best buddy died that way. I hate humans but some are nice.

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I've been eating like an ape for 3 years! I have completely lost the taste for what passes for food in our culture.

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Perhaps what we all need are keepers who feed us. The secret is always the availability of other food that is more pleasurable than fruit and vegetables. Monkeys in the wild have to live on what grows in the wild. If they had more tasty choices I am sure they would choose them. Monkeys in the zoo have dieticians and keepers that control what they are fed - only healthy food. Free choice is the derermining factor. Those who enjoy a vegitarian diet or those people who have the will power to make themselves adhere to this diet of course will succeed. Those who enjoy tasty foods and have a hard time living on bland fare, are always the ones who have problems.

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There is nothing wrong with a diet similar to what the zoo keepers are feeding the apes. However, if you want to eat like a wild ape eats, you will have to include animals, raw animals! Apes are, for the most part, vegetarians, however, if something like a monkey is made available, they will rip it limb from limb and eat it. Yikes! Now that's where I would draw the line - no raw meat!
Also, concerning the person above whom eats dairy. NO animal consumes dairy after the brief suckling period after birth. The enzyme needed to reduce the milk so that it can be digested is lost, in humans after about the age of two, making it much more difficult for the body to digest dairy products. Man is the only animal who eats dairy throughout the rest of their lives. And suffer for it...

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William Ross's lashing out against the "left-wing" in response to an article that has nothing to do with political philosophy indicates that he is a very troubled, and probably very lonely, person. I feel sorry for his family, if he has one.

May he devour mass quantities of saturated fats and put his life on the line in Iraq in defense of his "right-wing" leaders who got us into the quagmire. If he isn't blowin up in Iraq, at least he should die of heart disease at an early age rather than lingering for years on the Medicare dollars paid in by us liberals.

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