Re:Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs?
by amanaplanacanal on Sunday September 20, 2020 @09:40AM
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People can be perfectly healthy on a wide range of carbohydrate intake. Native peoples in the Arctic lived almost entirely on animals, for example, whereas there were tropical island societies that lived almost entirely on plant sources.
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Re:Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs?
by rewq4321 on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @07:29PM
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> People can be perfectly healthy on a wide range of carbohydrate intake
Again, citation needed there. The recommendation of all major national and international dietetics associations (based on currently available peer-reviewed studies) is that a healthy diet should consist mostly of carbohydrates.
There certainly are "extreme" diets, but these seem to require at least a bit of genetic adaptation:
> "a new study[0] on Inuit in Greenland suggests that Arctic peoples evolved certain genetic adaptations that allow them to consume much higher amounts of fat than most other people around the world"
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/17/441169188/th...