The “healthy lifestyle” promoted today shows no similarity to the hardy natural lives lived by most of humanity for the majority of its history. As an example, it wasn’t till the daybreak of agriculture about 10 thousand years back that grains and legumes turned into a major food source. For millions of years before that, it was often meat and animal fat, with fruits and nuts being the sole other nutritional options when they were even available at all .
And though our ancestors were definitely much more physically active, it is far from certain that they engaged in prolonged high-intensity exercise of the kind we see in health clubs today. It is rather more likely that while their lives were very physical, it was not intensely therefore composed of a lot of walking, squatting, crawling, ducking, and the like, as necessary, with rather few occasions of no holds barred explosive effort. For the main part, early humans and humanoids would have preferred to conserve their energy as much as humanly possible the chief health concern back then wasn’t getting too thin, and not today’s concerns over getting too fat!
Given all this, what’s engaging is when we deliberate over how hunger and starvation work in a rather more natural environment. In such a situation, similar to that faced by our more distant ancestors, carbohydrate intake is low while there’s a fair quantity of fatty beef. Yet that alone can satisfy, to a reasonable enough degree, the human hunger for a day or 2. For fat stores will be tapped, reducing the likelihood of weight problems a virtually unknown condition in the Hobbesian jungle.
Indeed, there’s a entire movement springing up that’s's devoted to reproducing the diet, if not the lifestyle in its totality, of primitive man, with the focus on meat and animal fats. This may be an extreme response, but a general agreement is building the simplistic image of nourishment and good health increase over the past three decades is way unfinished and even downright wrong.
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