Prior to the 20th century most of SE Asia was gluten free.
So was the Western Hemisphere prior to Columbus.
I’m sure my Cherokee ancestors would have been surprised to know that their diet, which they’d eaten for thousands of years, was unhealthy.
And what was the average life expectancy in SE Asia prior to the 20th century?
So was the Western Hemisphere prior to Columbus.
What was the average life expectancy in the Western Hemisphere back then?
I’m sure my Cherokee ancestors would have been surprised to know that their diet, which they’d eaten for thousands of years, was unhealthy.
What was the average life expectancy of your Cherokee ancestors?
Right. We're living longer now than at any other time in human history. Yeah, all that gluten and GMO food is killing us. The Roman army conquered the world marching on bread. Too bad they weren't aware of the damage they were doing to their physical well being.
Would these be these same; your very same Cherokee ancestors who at the time of the arrival of those “stupid” grain eating Europeans, were living a semi-Paleolithic existence compared to their European contemporaries? The Cherokee’s and other native Indian tribes who had not even yet discovered the wheel by the time the first European arrived, live alone a written language, etc.?
And their; the Cherokee pre-Columbian diet was heavy with corn (maize). While meat was the preferred food source, maize, i.e. corn was a very important staple in most Native American diets along with other wild growing grains and carbohydrate heavy root vegetables during times when the hunting was not so good.
And it (a maize rich diet) wasn’t so “healthy”.
Health conditions before Columbus: paleopathology of native North Americans
Iron deficiency anemia appears to have been widespread and ubiquitous in most ancient populations in the New World. The general distribution of the lesion corresponds with increasing reliance on agricultural products such as maize, which are low in bioavailable iron. For example, Lallo and co-workers evaluated changes in rates of porotic hyperostosis for ancient Mississippians in Illinois living in the 12th century and found that its prevalence increased dramatically in the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture. They suggested that this was due to an overreliance on maize in the diet and that the lesions were most pronounced in younger children because of diarrheal disease during weaning, combined with poor diet.