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<blockquote data-quote="first14808" data-source="post: 1633273" data-attributes="member: 452612"><p>Interesting question! We're certainly fortunate that most of us don't have to experience real hunger. We're surrounded by food, and special offers, yet some (or too many) people are relying on food banks or other charity. It's certainly something I've been forced to look at now I have to cut/watch the carbs. It's also something where we're quite vulnerable as a nation. So UK would struggle to be self-sufficient in food. Any catastrophic breakdown in transportation or power would knock out most of our supermarkets and force a pretty drastic change in diets. So something like another Carrington event.</p><p></p><p>But I think we've certainly got lazy, but there's also some romanticising about the past. So the Primordial.. I mean Paleo diet attempts some ancestor worship. So 'basic' foods from Neolithic times, yet excludes some foods like legumes and dairy. The Aurochs were around in Europe at the time, so no real historic reason to exclude those. Nor most legumes, depending on what part of the world you want to pretend you're in.. So there's no real reason to exclude coffee either. But there would have been a lot more energy expenditure being a hunter/gather foraging for nuts, berries, seeds, game etc than prowling supermarket aisles looking for a BOGOF of beer. Or worse, ordering online for home delivery.. Click on the picture of beefburgers before it gets away.. Increasing obesity in the developed West suggests we're eating too much though, or too much of the wrong things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="first14808, post: 1633273, member: 452612"] Interesting question! We're certainly fortunate that most of us don't have to experience real hunger. We're surrounded by food, and special offers, yet some (or too many) people are relying on food banks or other charity. It's certainly something I've been forced to look at now I have to cut/watch the carbs. It's also something where we're quite vulnerable as a nation. So UK would struggle to be self-sufficient in food. Any catastrophic breakdown in transportation or power would knock out most of our supermarkets and force a pretty drastic change in diets. So something like another Carrington event. But I think we've certainly got lazy, but there's also some romanticising about the past. So the Primordial.. I mean Paleo diet attempts some ancestor worship. So 'basic' foods from Neolithic times, yet excludes some foods like legumes and dairy. The Aurochs were around in Europe at the time, so no real historic reason to exclude those. Nor most legumes, depending on what part of the world you want to pretend you're in.. So there's no real reason to exclude coffee either. But there would have been a lot more energy expenditure being a hunter/gather foraging for nuts, berries, seeds, game etc than prowling supermarket aisles looking for a BOGOF of beer. Or worse, ordering online for home delivery.. Click on the picture of beefburgers before it gets away.. Increasing obesity in the developed West suggests we're eating too much though, or too much of the wrong things. [/QUOTE]
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