I’m talking about before we figured out we could grow vegetables and fruits. Early humans are often shown as being fit and in shape, yet our diet pretty much only consisted of meat. We were hunters. So why the hell were they so fit? I thought a healthy diet mattered more than just being active constantly?

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    1 year ago

    The wild ancestors of our modern food did exist. And there’s a reason we have highly advanced cultivars of those foods, it’s because people were eating them before they were cultivated. Once agriculture started, people took the foods they regularly foraged and started to grow them. Then they would replant the ones they liked and toss/eat the seeds of the ones they didn’t. Do that a few thousand years and you’ve got highly edible and great tasting produce, but it all started with people trying to grow what they already ate.

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      1 year ago

      Yes but they were not what we have today. Lower sugar content. More hardy. Tougher skins. Less yield.