Timeline for Would an obligate carnivore eat bread/grain?
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| May 11, 2020 at 15:08 | vote | accept | Matthew | ||
| May 6, 2020 at 18:12 | comment | added | Matthew | They aren't Terran cats. While I try to generalize my questions when feasible, in this case I am specifically interested in "felinoids" (SF/F examples abound...). BTW, interesting article! (Now that I've had a chance to read, or at least skim, through most of it.) It sounds like eating carbs might actually result in a protein craving, which is neat (and useful!) to know. That actually helps with a point I've struggled with, which is that breads are tasty, but my characters (sometimes) don't want to eat them anyway. | |
| May 6, 2020 at 17:56 | comment | added | Ville Niemi | @Matthew Bit of clarity I can offer : eating carbohydrates will still cause spikes in digested sugar and obligate carnivores might (or might not) be more sensitive to those because they would have evolved to those spikes being rarer. Cats specifically might be exceptionally sensitive since they seem to have very low levels of relevant enzymes but it is also speculated they just use something else we do not know instead. | |
| May 6, 2020 at 17:54 | comment | added | Ville Niemi | @Matthew Actually, that is apparently not known for sure. It has been assumed that obesity and diabetes will happen, hence those articles, but on the other hand, as you say, undigested sugar should not cause either of those things. I think being vague was the right call. It is not known and your carnivores are not actually cats, right? | |
| May 6, 2020 at 17:48 | comment | added | Matthew | "And even if you indulge too much, the consequences should not be worse than for humans, they'll just happen sooner at lower quantity." This feels ripe for elaboration. I'm guessing we aren't talking about the stuff that Google finds, namely weight gain and diabetes, since (I believe) those require that the carbs are actually digested? (Although the linked article seems to suggest otherwise...) | |
| May 6, 2020 at 17:33 | history | answered | Ville Niemi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |