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Comment by toasterlovin

I'm pretty skeptical of your claims that starch and simple sugars played an important part in human diets for the past 150,000 years. Here's why:

1) Throughout most of the world, fruit is generally only available during an extremely limited window in any given year. And it spoils in a matter of days.

2) The big agricultural revolution was the domestication of grains. Grains are important because they keep for a long time and can therefore provide a stable year-round supply of calories even if they can only be harvested once per year. According to this wikipedia page[1], grains weren't domesticated until 11,000 years ago.

Do you have a link that provides documentation for the importance of carbohydrates in the pre-agricultural human diet?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication

parent toasterlovin 10 years ago

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