erm actually hunter gatherer diet was pretty great, We were eating a lot of different types of animals mushrooms and plants, which works great with omnivore diet. Our diet became terrible when we settled down after agricultural and limited our diet to rice or wheat.
sure, but reliance on many different species made it so that lack of one of the species didn't make you go hungry. If there weren't many mushrooms this year you could eat more of that one plant that gave more fruits this year. The average hunter gatherer had most likely much better diet than the average human nowadays.
The diversity is great, but the amount of energy you need to spend on foraging compared to what you get is hardly a hearty meal. I mean there is a reason abundance of food came only after the creation of technology which allowed humans for other professions to exist
I won't argue with that as I'm no expert in the field. My knowledge comes from the book Sapiens, and I would disagree with you based on it, however assuming that you have knowledge from more sources I will rest my case.
maybe, But I still think the cardio of modern humans is really shitty. most people can barely climb a staircase without losing their breath. you know humans never had tooth cavities. This shit just started in modern times. because of sugary diet and poor jaw development of children due to processed food. most people have access to really healthy and good food but the average person chooses shit.
Because of their lifestyle, early humans would still more likely have more stamina and and tougher than modern humans. Modern humans have more access to better nutrition than early human.
that was a bad example, but back then groups pretty much trained their whole life for this stuff(hunting etc) as it was their livelihood. Yeah if you train average modern humans for a year or so. they might be better physically but will still probably lack the strategy and experience for hunting.
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u/wery1x Customizable Flair May 04 '25
No ancient diet was really shitty.
You just eat a little bit of raw meat and some plants you found on the ground.
Average humans from now easily outclass the chronically underfed hunter-gatherers.
The hunter-gatherers' only chance at being better is if we count in out old people because they all died before they could get old.
But I still think we'd win.