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I don’t think we can generalize that, because it depends on where the hunter-gatherer lived. https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/05/health/hunter-gatherer-diet-tanzani
by nobodyandproud 6y ago
I don’t think we can generalize that, because it depends on where the hunter-gatherer lived.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/05/health/hunter-gatherer-diet-tanzania-the-conversation/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/05/health/hunter-gatherer-diet-t...
It’s a three day sampling, but fruit and honey make-up a non-trivial portion of their caloric intake.
Inuit diet, of course, was mostly fat and protein
out of necessity
- fmajid 6y agoWe only started eating vegetables 85,000 years ago. For the 2M years before that it was all meat diet: https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-2-million-years-humans-ate-meat-and-little-else-study/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-2-million-years-humans-ate...
- nobodyandproud 6y agoYour link indicates it’s a hypothesis, and not a widely -accepted PoV.
- nobodyandproud 6y agoIn fact, one of the conclusions was off: https://news.ncsu.edu/2015/07/beasley-acid-2015/ https://news.ncsu.edu/2015/07/beasley-acid-2015/ If anything, high acidity shows humans as scavengers rather than hunters.
- fmajid 6y agoYes. That would also explain why we prefer dry-aged rather than fresh beef.
- deepnotderp 6y agoI'm well aware of diet variability, but overall we ate lots of meat.