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0 pointscd4plus6mo ago0 comments

This is wrong. Our bodies evolved to eat a diverse omnivorous diet and complex carbs + the antioxidants present in vegetables and fruits are anti-oxidative.

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NotGMan6mo ago

This is wrong.

Humans have eaten complex carbs only for the last 10k years since agricultural revolution. Before that, outside of a small part of Africa, there physically wasn't enough carbs available to say that they made any substantial amount of our diet.

Most ancenstral carbs were uber high in fiber, and very low in glucose (starch) and fructose.

DennisP6mo ago

I've taken courses in primitive wilderness survival, and one of the staple foods was grass seed.

Also lots of roots are edible with cooking, and it looks like we've been cooking for about a million years. Then there's wild rice, cattails, beans, berries, all sorts of stuff.

I agree that most wild plants are high in fiber and low in sugar, but there are are a lot of complex carbs to be had, if you have fire.

NotGMan6mo ago

Interesting. So its possible to gather enough of these food to get eg ~200+g carbs per day (speaking in ancestral context, a tribe)?

Also how much must you eat of these to get enough in order to get enough digestable carbs due to the high fiber content?

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dennis_jeeves26mo ago

>Our bodies evolved to eat a diverse omnivorous diet and complex carbs

Evolved to eats omnivorous diets yes no doubts, but to thrive on omnivorous diets, perhaps no. Most people I know thrive on meats and do worse otherwise.

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NotGMan6mo ago

This is wrong.

Most ancenstral carbs were uber high in fiber, and very low in glucose (starch) and fructose.

DennisP6mo ago

I've taken courses in primitive wilderness survival, and one of the staple foods was grass seed.

Also lots of roots are edible with cooking, and it looks like we've been cooking for about a million years. Then there's wild rice, cattails, beans, berries, all sorts of stuff.

I agree that most wild plants are high in fiber and low in sugar, but there are are a lot of complex carbs to be had, if you have fire.

NotGMan6mo ago

Interesting. So its possible to gather enough of these food to get eg ~200+g carbs per day (speaking in ancestral context, a tribe)?

Also how much must you eat of these to get enough in order to get enough digestable carbs due to the high fiber content?

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dennis_jeeves26mo ago

>Our bodies evolved to eat a diverse omnivorous diet and complex carbs

Evolved to eats omnivorous diets yes no doubts, but to thrive on omnivorous diets, perhaps no. Most people I know thrive on meats and do worse otherwise.

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