I often enjoy reading the
Beyond Vegetarianism website- mainly because the writers of the site
are prone to the occassional entertaining outburst against the more exotic
beliefs put foward by some groups of vegetarians. While reading their
article on human adaption to diet, I found some fascinating (at least to
me) information about the energy requirements of the human brain.
According to references on
this page, while non primate brains generally use about 3-4% of the
total energy coming into the animal, and primates about 8%, a whopping 25%
of total energy consumed by people goes towards their brains. Basically,
the brain is like “Feed me! Feed me!” all the time.
posted at 22:08 on Tue, 04 Apr, 2006 |
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