Humans Are Starchivores (Starch Eaters)

Starch. It might not sound fancy but its role in human history has been undeniably powerful and largely ignored as the popular carb-fearing notions dominate the airwaves.
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My Meat and Brain Video:    • TIME: Sorry Vegans, Meat Made Us Huma...  

My Neanderthal Video:    • New Study: Vegan Neanderthals?  

Video of Non-newtonian fluid:
   • Fun with Non-Newtonian Fluid - Lamar ...  

Grain consumption 100,000 years ago:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content...

Cooked starch 30% more digestible than raw:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science...

McDougall TED talk on Starch:
   • The food we were born to eat: John Mc...  

Gladiators Barley Men quote:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Okinawan Diet Study:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...

Starched Based Vegan Weight Loss Study:
http://www.nature.com/nutd/journal/v7...

Carbs don't store as fat very much study:
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/...

95% of fat storage from fat study:
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/...

Dominy video 1:    • Starchivores: John A. McDougall, M.D....  
Dominy VIdeo 2:

30-40% of Starch Digestion from Salivary Amylase:
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/07090...

Les Copeland Quote:
http://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/new...

Starch was essential for evolution of humans study:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/...

Paleo rebuttal:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mace-lab/media/...

Fossilized Starch in Plaque:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/...
http://www.pnas.org/content/113/37/10...