Sun, Jun-12-22, 08:00
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Senior Member
Posts: 7,477
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Plan: RNY (small portions)
Stats: 306/233/120
BF:
Progress: 39%
Location: SW BC
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I think there is definitely a racial component to how well we digest plants vs. animals, carbs vs. protein sources. Many people in the past had to subsist on a mainly animal protein diet through the ice age, some people groups did not, but perhaps lived in deserts where dairy and animal meat, tubers and nuts were much more important than cereals. In terms of time, the intensive cultivation of cereals is relatively recent. Archaeological studies show conclusively that health deteriorated in people groups once they went to a mainly cereal diet, but people traded, as they do now, a high quality diet for consistency and ease, and there is some thinking that it was also tied to a hierarchical society where many people laboured and ate a subsistence diet mainly on grains to support an elite upper class. Most people in history had no choice. They had to eat bread, lentils and porridge morning, noon, and night, but we have better choices.
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