Eat Real Food - Hackdot

Re:Eat Real Food by woodruffw on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:38PM (#46535973)

I don't understand the claim: is it that farming diets are unhealthy, or something else? I'd expect subsistence lifestyles to have higher all-round mortality, but probably not CVD specifically.

> People in India smoked just as much when they weren't living such sedentary lifestyles.

I suspect they also lived shorter lives for the aforementioned all-round mortality reasons.

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Re:Eat Real Food by givemeethekeys on Thursday January 08, 2026 @12:44AM (#46537639)

Farming diets are rich in calories. Great for farmers. Not so great for desk jockeys.

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Re:Eat Real Food by woodruffw on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:50AM (#46540430)

I think most farming diets in India are closer to subsistence diets, or at least historically have been.

(If you have resources that show otherwise, that would be interesting. But smoking really does seem like the obvious historical outlying factor for heart disease in India, with calorie-dense diets playing catch up as the country has become wealthier.)

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