Hello again ,

This week is a quick comparison between our hunter-gatherer ancestors, and the agricultural modern way of living we experience today.

AGRICULTURE vs PALEOLITHIC

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Human genetics evolved and adapted to a hunter-gatherer way of life over 100,000 years ago.

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Built into our genes is a lifestyle where daily food had to be hunted, fished, or gathered from the natural environment.

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Nature determined what our bodies needed thousands of years before people started farming and raising domesticated livestock.

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DNA evidence shows that basic human physiology has changed little in 40,000 years.

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Hunter-gatherers had no cavities or bone malformations common to malnutrition and no vitamin or mineral deficiencies.

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Agricultural farmers had more infectious diseases, more childhood mortality, and shorter life spans in general. 

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Farmers had osteoporosis, rickets and other bone mineral disorders.

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Vitamin and mineral deficiencies gave them scurvy, beriberi, pellagra, and iron-deficiency anemia. They also developed cavities and other teeth problems. 

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WHAT WENT WRONG?

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Farmers consumed grains, cereals and starches instead of meat, vegetables and fruit. 

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They fed these grains to their domesticated livestock which made the animals fatter with less omega-3 fatty acids.

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This agricultural lifestyle led to the birth of processed food with vegetable oils, high-fructose corn syrup, additives, preservatives, artificial coloring agents, emulsifiers, and trans fats. 

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NHF

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