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Humans have relied on bread, pasta, rice, and tubers for most of their calories since time immemorial. Japanese people eat plenty of rice even today and they ar
by triceratops 8mo ago
Humans have relied on bread, pasta, rice, and tubers for most of their calories since time immemorial. Japanese people eat plenty of rice even today and they are very healthy.
"Food pyramid dumb, eat meat" is a very reductive take.
- throwaway27448 8mo agoOnly the last hundred to twenty thousand years or so. Evolutionarily speaking, that's not our typical diet. Maybe excepting tubers.
- triceratops 8mo agoExplain Japan.
- throwaway27448 8mo agoI never said eating rice was bad for you, but fruits, nuts, meats are also human staples. The big thing domesticated cereal brought us was rapid population growth and the state.
- mixmastamyk 8mo agoFolks had to do the harvest and milling work themselves until recently, it’s not the same. Nor are the quantities.
- triceratops 8mo agoThat's what I mean by reductive. Lifestyle changes, processed food filled with sugar and marketed by corporations...they all played a part.