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Easy carbs and abundance of it. Before it was hard to find too much food for a common person.
by xvilka 5y ago
Easy carbs and abundance of it. Before it was hard to find too much food for a common person.
- vagrantJin 5y agoWell it's not like we don't know that eating excessive amounts of food, is going to cause health problems related to obesity or otherwise.
- otabdeveloper4 5y agoThe problem is that we have no handle on what "excessive amounts" really is. A slice of cake is, in fact, an "excessive amount" - it's more food than a pound of cheese. Eating a pound of cheese does, indeed, feel "excessive", while a slice of cake (or two) is just a chaser after a full meal for most people.
- spadros 5y agoNot sure what cake we're talking about here but a pound of cheddar has roughly 1800 calories. A slice of cake is worth about 4 or 5 thick slices of cheese if you're trying to compare calorically.
- otabdeveloper4 5y agoComparing calories is not the correct approach. Diesel fuel has a huge amount of calories, but your body obviously can't process it properly.
- phonypc 5y agoSurely you don't mean to suggest that humans can't make use of the energy in cheese?
- otabdeveloper4 5y agoIt's not a binary dichotomy of can vs can't make use.
- fpoling 5y agoIn the book “Burn” Herman Pontzer mentioned that modern hunter-gatherers in Africa gets over 50% of their calories from starchy vegetables and honey, not from hunted animals.