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Maybe we should turn it around a bit. There is a huge variation in what our ancestors ate. But modern highly processed food would be alien to all of them - no
by inglor_cz 5y ago
Maybe we should turn it around a bit.
There is a huge variation in what our ancestors ate. But modern highly processed food would be alien to all of them - no tribe nor nation on the planet ever sustained themselves on a diet of salami, pizza, French fries and massively sweetened soft drinks.
This is a very recent sea change in nutrition, where I would expect a lot of unknowable hazards to lie.
- Ekaros 5y agoEven agriculture itself is in evolutionary terms recent change. Some components sure like lactose tolerance, but overall new.
- inglor_cz 5y agoThere is still quite a difference between 5000 years and 25 years. Especially because in the pre-modern world, generations were much shorter than today. People would start having kids around 18.
- robbedpeter 5y ago14 or 15, often. 18 year old adults is a recent liberal human rights innovation. There's not a whole lot of difference between humans now and humans 100,000 years ago. We have better tools and culture and knowledge, but we're physically identical - swap a baby in either direction and nobody would know the difference.
- robbedpeter 5y agoModern foods actually makes variety simpler, since you can lump them all into one food category - modern food is often slight seasoning and proportion variations on the same processed ingredients, so you don't want to eat it frequently. An occasional pizza or birthday cake or soda is ok, but they're not great for daily food sources, especially with hfcs or lots of sugar.