High-carb diets are ideal for health.

My opponent has continued in his usual style and mostly ignored my comments until the very last when we makes a few brief comments. Yet, he still managed to avoid mentioning anything about the government anti-fat campaign which occurred in the late 1970's. The graph that was shown on my reference, clearly demonstrates that since about 1970, there has been an large increase in obesity and diabetes. This can be squarely blamed on the world government's and their anti-fat/protein campaign of the late 1970's. The food pyramid that was produced by the government in the 1970's is the biggest health disaster in the history of mankind. It has led to more health problems and disease than the worlds hospitals can handle. http://curaromana.com... http://www.abc.net.au... Humans are omnivores. On one hand, the teeth in our skull include both cutting incisors (as found in carnivores) and grinding molars (as found in herbivores). This combination makes us flexible omnivores. On the other hand, the timing of what happens to food puts paid to this claim that meat does not get digested. The human gut has all the enzymes needed to digest meat. The human gut is some 10 metres long. The food enters at your mouth where you chew it, and where your saliva adds a few digestive enzymes. Then, after transit via the oesophagus, this food ends up in the stomach. In the stomach, the enzyme (called pepsin) attacks the proteins in meat. It breaks down the long chains of amino acids into smaller chains. Typically, the food will stay in the stomach for between one half an hour and two and a half hours, before moving on to the next section, the small intestine. But the pepsin acting in the stomach digests only about 15 per cent of the protein. The small intestine does most of the digestion and absorption of what we eat. It takes some two to six hours to do so. In the small intestine, the pancreas pumps out various enzymes that break down the small chains of amino acids into even smaller chains. The cells lining the gut have microscopic fingers on them called microvilli. The microvilli walls have enzymes anchored or embedded in the actual walls. These enzymes start inside the body of the microvilli, and protrude through the wall of the microvilli into the hollow tube of the gut. When you eat food, these enzymes break down the chains of amino acids into tiny chains of three and two amino acids and, sometimes, even single amino acids. These are carried into the cells lining the gut and broken down (if necessary) into single amino acids. Then they are passed right through the cell out to the other side, and then into a vein that carries the individual amino acids to that big organ, the liver, for further processing. So, yes, our human gut actually has all the mechanisms needed for digesting the proteins of meat. The gut contents are then moved into the large intestine where water and some electrolytes are removed. The time taken for this transit is much greater, ranging from 14 to 80 hours. The various transit times are affected by many factors including genetics, quantity of fibre in the diet, the size of the meals, age, gender, smoking, exercise and so on. But in each part of the gut, the mushy contents tend to move through as a unit, similar to toothpaste being squeezed out of its container. They are thoroughly mixed in together before they eventually escape to the outside world. Those parts of the mush that were originally meat are not separated out, and are not specially kept aside to quietly rot. Thus, if you want your meat to do that, you need to put it to the side of your plate.