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Humans have been eating grains for 10,000 years, and sugar for a hundred.
by ynniv 8y ago
Humans have been eating grains for 10,000 years, and sugar for a hundred.
- dekhn 8y agohumans were extracting sugar from sugarcane 8,000 years ago. It was consumed heavily in india 2000 years ago. BUt of course we've been eating free sugars in foods for as long as we've been around.
- ynniv 8y agoSugar was a rare luxury until recently. Even fruit was a luxury historically. Yes people ate sugar more than a hundred years ago, but it was a few pounds per year. Modern intake is more than fifty times as much.
- wolco 8y agoHumans have been eating sugars in fruit form since day 1.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoGrains were crucial when food was scarce and preparation tedious, not so much when abundant and effortless. Both may be an issue in the modern world.
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- malkia 8y agoHumans were working their asses from 4-5 in the morning, up to late nights, walking miles and miles, carrying heavy stuff (women with their infants strapped on their back, or in a pouch working in the field/farm). I know, because i knew such strong person that was frickin healthy even in her 90 years - one of my grand grand grand mom. Rosy cheecks, wrinkled face of a worker. Still later in her years, was no problem for her waking up and working a lot.