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Food Origins

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Caught the end of Dr Moseley on Jeremy Vine yesterday, one of the things he said was for thousand of years we have eaten meat and dairy, and refined sugar for only about 50 years.
This got me thinking, things like pototoes, carrots other root veggie are from the Americas, lots of food from India and Africa came to Europe via the British Empire. So we are eating food that isn't native to us. Ok we've eaten them for a hundreds of years but surely there has been some kind of reaction.
 
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I think we have been eating refined sugar for a bit longer than 50 years. After all the slave trade in the Caribbean islands was built on it's production.
 
I think it's very interesting, and even if the time periods are a little off, the concept is still the same. Our bodies weren't designed to eat all of the refined, processed stuff that we ingest.
Unfortunately, to get something less processed we usually have to pay a lot more. It's a strange world we live in!!
 
This is one of the founding principles behind the Paleo way of eating.
Have a google - there is a vast amount of info, discussion, forum activity, books, recipes, etc. etc.

It is very similar to LCHF, but with a few key differences (dairy being one).
 
I just wish the Chinese had never invented pasta and that Marco Polo had left it where he found it but they did and he didn't and I do like it what a shame.
 
luceeloo said:
I think it's very interesting, and even if the time periods are a little off, the concept is still the same. Our bodies weren't designed to eat all of the refined, processed stuff that we ingest.
Unfortunately, to get something less processed we usually have to pay a lot more. It's a strange world we live in!!
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Unprocessed means perishable and we have to pay for the spoilage. I read that supermarkets throw out almost half of the perishable food.
 
Only quoting dr about sugar, I thought the same but maybe he meant adding sugar to food that shouldn't have it i.e pasta sauce
 
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