[ExI] Paleo/Primal health

[Stefano Vaj]

On 18 November 2010 02:59, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/11/17 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>:
> Rampant obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc. are
> postindustrial problems. They didn't start 10,000 years ago when
> agriculture began. They began recently when industrialization made
> highly calorie-dense food readily and cheaply available.

This is not what paleopathology seems to indicate. In fact, Michael R.
Eades' Protein Power mentions sources which exactly try to show how
this idea would be just a widespread commonplace, since, e.g, ancient
Egypt was already suffering from "modern" ailments in this respect;
which was not the case for contemporary or subsequent
hunters-gatherers.

But yes, caloric deprivation - that is, in this context, the acute
scarcity of carbos - seems, surprise surprise, to limit the damages of
a carbo-based diet... ;-)

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Stefano Vaj