I recently had the opportunity to see a confidential, 22-minute completion fundraising preview of C. J. Hunt’s documentary, In Search of the Perfect Human Diet, and I can tell you that this is going to make waves. He's done a fantastic piece of investigative journalism that leaves no doubt about which diet is the best match for the human genome. This is the scientific evidence that the world, especially the media, needs to see in order to find solutions for the epidemic of obesity and chronic diseases that threaten our well-being and our very survival, both individually and as a society.

C. J. is hoping to get his 4-part documentary edited and on HBO, the Discovery Channel, or PBS by January 2010. (He still needs corporate sponsors for the film. If you know anyone who might be interested, contact him through his Website at: http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102739921369&s=0&e=001B9bbkQXkwqDABQSznzqB5KPtWoQXr4RDj8uTfxDIJGsGJtEw45zwKViDwm580MSdxn4k5WfKrbfG98SHpIC3RBlIKtGaATUN0ABb--fWcLmkVWkoWnv_liFzVwSr4uw5.) A video about the mission and scope of the project is on the website and the new blog

In Search of the Perfect Human Diet reminded me of something I have puzzled over since 2004 when my husband was working on a project that took us to Greece. The first picture at the top of this post shows me with our Greek friend and host at the entrance to a beehive tomb in Mycenae. The hill behind us is really a huge stone dome built without interior supports. Notice the size of the stones in the entry walls, with the largest stones at the bottom, becoming smaller toward the top. The second picture, with my husband standing in the same spot, gives you a better idea of the scale of one of the stones. The 2nd Century Roman geographer, Pausanias, described the walls as being made of stones, “so big that a pair of mules could not move the smallest from its place in the slightest degree.” The Greeks called them Cyclopean walls, because they thought they could only have been built by giants. (Cyclops were a mythological race of one-eyed giants.) Some modern writers cite them as proof that the Earth has been visited by aliens. Similar walls are found in other places in Greece and Italy and at Machu Picchu and other pre-Columbian sites in the New World.

The Egyptian Sphinx presents a similar riddle. Many scholars believe it was built, perhaps as much as 8,000 years ago, by people who predated the pyramid builders. An inscription found in 1857 on an “inventory stele,” said that Khufu (2589 to 2566 B.C.E), the pharaoh who built the first pyramid at Giza, excavated and restored the Sphinx. It was already old in his time. The head was altered by one of the early pharaohs to depict his own image, but the body was constructed of massive stones, many times the size of the ones used to build the later pyramids. (The stones in Khufu’s own pyramid, all 2,300,000 of them, averaged 2.5 tons each.)

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