Herbivore Diet vs. Omnivore Diet

That's the title of a presentation I recently watched from Milton Mills MD. Dr Mills points out that our bodies (in every recognizable difference) are designed/evolved to eat a primarily a plant based diet , high in fiber and low in fats. He talks about the differences between the muscle and skeletal structure of carnivores as well as the difference between the teeth and intestinal tract of both carnivorous and plant eating animals. This hour long lecture goes on to mention that in every definition of body adaptability that we Humans are indeed herbivores, despite the fact that as a culture we consume huge quantities of flesh. In fact Dr. Mills states that is the main reason for the " 'disease d'jour ", 'or disease of the day'. He claims that a diet low in fiber can lead to diseases such as

irritable bowel symptoms,

diverticulitis,

hemorrhoids,

appendicitis,

increased risk of colon cancer,

and other hormone related cancers(such as breast and prostate cancer).

Dr. Mills' list goes on.. 'Animal Fat and Protein Have Been linked to:'

Heart disease;

Obesity;

Cancers of the breast, prostate, colon, lung, and pancreas ;

Diabetes-type 1 and Type 2;

Gallstones;

Kidney Stones;

Osteoporosis;

Infantile Iron-deficiency anemia;

Cataracts;

Diarrhea caused by Salmonella, E. coli, Camphylo bacter and Claustridia species.

This dude breaks it down to examples in nature regarding predators and prey, saying that humans bring an herbivore mentality to a carnivorous diet. Meaning that as a plant eater animals seek out the most biggest, lush, most beautiful foliage that will have the most nutrients. By contrast meat eaters seek out the old, injured, sick or young animals because they are the easiest to catch, effectively improving the gene pool by not going for the biggest and the best. When we bring the mentality of the biggest, most beautiful specimen to eat to our diet of animals then we destroy the gene pool.

A few points: we cannot catch animals without tools, carnivores come with the equipment to catch and kill there prey ; carnivores eat once or twice a week even once every 10 days, plant eaters eat 2 to 3 times a day ; carnivores use muscle to stand against gravity (check the angle of their stance), herbivores use their skeletons to easily oppose gravity (that's why a horse can sleep standing up), herbivores can easily walk around all day but carnivores, when not active, tend to lay down ; meat eaters can have good night vision while plant eaters cannot see well at night ; carnivores have short gestation periods with multiple offspring, herbivores have long pregnancy with a single baby or maybe twins ; only herbivores have an appendix. This comparative list goes on and on and on.

The amount of evidence is staggering and behooving to a person of truth to refer to humans not as carnivores or even omnivores as the proof of humans being eaters of both plants AND animals is still not there, since and omnivore's body is set up just like a carnivore. Begging the question, can a carnivore evolve a plant eating diet? Or, can an herbivore develop a meat eating diet? It seems to me that if herbivores have no features of carnivores and omnivores DO have carnivore features that those once meat eating animals adapted plant eating capabilities.