Comment by xthrown1

Given that their 'diet' resulted in them being chronically malnourished with such lovely diseases as rickets and pellagra I'd take what we have today thanks.

People today seriously underestimate how common famines were.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines?useskin=vector

If you filter by country until the 20th century you had a famine roughly every 5 years.