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Yet we clearly prioritized certain foods and the human body adapted around those foods. Over time tribes converged on what plants were safe to eat (and which ha
by wyldberry 3y ago
Yet we clearly prioritized certain foods and the human body adapted around those foods. Over time tribes converged on what plants were safe to eat (and which had defense chemicals that didn't make them suitable to eat), and prioritized certain animals for hunting.
One thing I find interesting with that is how tightly coupled mongol armies were to an animal based diet, and how they reportedly looked down on farming and agrarian societies.
You'll often find many people not willing to wade into discussing food and exercise anymore because peiple treat it almost religiously. It makes discussion hard in the space because now food is so tightly coupled with society and culture.
We know the ancient greeks and romans exercised. Warriors of successful societies prioritized being fit of body. To have a discussion we'd have to get to common definitions of what exercise is.
- JohnFen 3y ago> they reportedly looked down on farming and agrarian societies. I think a really solid case can be made that agriculture was the biggest mistake humans have made.
- hattmall 3y agoYeah, starving sounds awesome, hate that so many people will miss out on it.
- JohnFen 3y agoPre-agricultural peoples didn't generally do much starving, and it's not like people now don't starve.
- klyrs 3y agoMost of their babies died, too.
- yamtaddle 3y agoOne of the more notable features of the economy of agricultural Europe before the introduction of New World crops was regular mass starvation.
- aabceh 3y agoOnly took about 10,000 years to reach the average height of hunter gatherers through agriculture.
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- robwwilliams 3y agoIt beats starvation. The Nuer had three modes in this order of preference: 1. Cattle grazing when all was good (migration = transhumant) 2. Fishing when possible, but more work and hard to synch with migrations of cattle 3. Farming only when really necessary See: E. E. Evans-Pritchard classics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nuer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nuer
- adrianN 3y agoAgricultural societies outcompeted hunter-gatherers pretty much everywhere.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> we clearly prioritized certain foods and the human body adapted around those foods Most traditional cuisines have their fair share of nonsense medicines and performative poisons. They had more time to test, so I’d absolutely pick it over our processed food. But it’s far from panacea.