Chocolate cake steak and ice cream for a health food breakfast.

Our earliest ancestors ate their food raw — fruit, leaves, maybe some nuts. When they ventured down onto land, they added things like underground tubers, roots and berries.
It wasn't a very high-calorie diet, so to get the energy you needed, you had to eat a lot and have a big gut to digest it all. But having a big gut has its drawbacks.
"You can't have a large brain and big guts at the same time," explains Leslie Aiello, an anthropologist and director of the Wenner-Gren Foundation in New York City, which funds research on evolution. Digestion, she says, was the energy-hog of our primate ancestor's body. The brain was the poor stepsister who got the leftovers.


Until, that is, we discovered meat.
"What we think is that this dietary change around 2.3 million years ago was one of the major significant factors in the evolution of our own species," Aiello says.

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Eating cookies or chocolate as part of breakfast that includes proteins and carbs also helps stem the craving for sweets later.
Researchers split 193 clinically obese, non-diabetic adults into two groups who consumed either a low-carb diet that included a 300-calorie breakfast or a balanced 600-calorie breakfast that included a chocolate cake dessert.

Halfway through the 32-week study both groups had lost an average of 33 lbs per person. But in the second half of the study the low-carb group regained an average of 22 lbs per person - while the dessert gorgers lost another 15 lbs each.

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Yoshihiko Koga, a professor at Tokyo's Kyorin University, has carried out a series of clinical trials in which test subjects were required to eat ice cream immediately after waking up.
They were then put through a series of mental exercises on a computer.
Compared to a group that had not eaten ice cream, Prof Koga's subjects exhibited faster reaction times and better information-processing capabilities, the Excite News web site reported.
Monitoring of the subjects' brain activity revealed an increase in high-frequency alpha waves, which are linked to elevated levels of alertness and reduced mental irritation.

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NonoBadDog said:

Meat makes you smarter:


Food For Thought: Meat-Based Diet Made Us Smarter : NPR

Cake for breakfast helps with weight loss:



Chocolate cake breakfast could help you lose weight - Telegraph

Ice Cream for stress reduction and faster reaction times:


Ice cream for breakfast makes you smarter, Japanese scientist claims

I can't wait for breakfast tomorrow morning. I need to find a study on how whiskey makes us sexier. I can find anything on the internet.

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NonoBadDog said:

Cake for breakfast helps with weight loss.

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NonoBadDog said:

Meat makes you smarter:


Food For Thought: Meat-Based Diet Made Us Smarter : NPR

Cake for breakfast helps with weight loss:



Chocolate cake breakfast could help you lose weight - Telegraph

Ice Cream for stress reduction and faster reaction times:


Ice cream for breakfast makes you smarter, Japanese scientist claims

I can't wait for breakfast tomorrow morning. I need to find a study on how whiskey makes us sexier. I can find anything on the internet.

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americanwoman said:

Sold, my new diet starts tomorrow.

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PoS said:

When I was in Italy for a month the hotel breakfast buffets had at least two cakes and other pastries every morning. Italians are nuts. :2razz:

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Lutherf said:

There was a study a while back that proved pizza and beer were great for preventing colon cancer or something. The downside was that to be effective you needed to eat something like 8 pizzas a day and drink 6 gallons of beer.

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Lutherf said:

There was a study a while back that proved pizza and beer were great for preventing colon cancer or something. The downside was that to be effective you needed to eat something like 8 pizzas a day and drink 6 gallons of beer.

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11Bravo said:

theres an urban myth that steaks marinated in balsamic vinaigrette and asparagus improves the serotonin levels in your brain making you feel happier.

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Lutherf said:

There was a study a while back that proved pizza and beer were great for preventing colon cancer or something. The downside was that to be effective you needed to eat something like 8 pizzas a day and drink 6 gallons of beer.

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