To: bray
Before cultivation (farming) we ate meat, fish, fowl, woodland berries and nuts and some tuber plants. We were hunter gatherers. The human body was adapted for this diet. With the advent of farming population exploded swiftly due to abundance of food that was mostly carbohydrates. Our bodies were not designed for this diet.
Oddly the carbs gave us large populations and civilizations of great grandeur though they were not the best of food.
9 posted on
08/23/2025 9:19:01 PM PDT by
cpdiii
(cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
To: cpdiii
Then why did they give us large populations?
14 posted on
08/23/2025 9:57:47 PM PDT by
nwrep
To: cpdiii
“we ate meat, fish, fowl, woodland berries and nuts and some tuber plants. We were hunter gatherers.”
We were hunters, period. Up until 20 thousands years ago, Europeans lived in the ice age, with Northern Europe covered by a permanent icesheet down to Belgium. They would be out of luck gathering tuber plants. So until you show me cave paintings with plants, let alone nuts, the “gatherers” part is a myth.
24 posted on
08/24/2025 6:45:05 AM PDT by
miniTAX
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