cro-magnon and star child metabolism
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Humans from deep past had bigger skulls than modern humans. So their metabolic rate must have been higher. How were they able to source more quality food compared to agricultural societies?
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@psi So many factors like increased mobility, cleaner air and less pollution, less processed food and toxic chemicals in the environment, no seed oils, organic fresh foods, less depleted soils, etc etc.
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@PrinceTrebata some of those factors didn't exist 100+ years ago. Cro-magnon was still bigger than well fed humans from 1900. Could it be grain and starch in general?
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@psi I didn't realize you meant that far back when you mentioned "deep past", I guess it was right there in the title. It's a good question though, even the ancient Greeks who are probably the most well respected individuals who have ever lived, and had good fresh nutrition, exercise, etc. Yet they had much smaller skulls than cro magnons. Maybe some now extinct animals provided an insane amount of nutrients. Or the constant chewing of tough meat changed their facial bone structure causing it to be much larger. Cooking meals while making some nutrients more avavible, often makes the food easier to chew.
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@PrinceTrebata have you looked at the latest stats for brain size of babies and adults too? I'm curious. In the last 50 years, PUFA would be the biggest contribution.
Ray suggested that the temperature was higher, so there was an abundance of tropical fruits. He rejected hunting and animals being the main nutritional source.
The Greeks are mostly a medieval fiction. Check dillum.ch to see how those events were made artificially older (by thousands of years sometimes).
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@psi It would probably have to be PUFA or other thyroid disrupters. Cane sugar being removed for sodas and and other sweets to high fructose corn syrup probably is a factor as well. IIRC by the 1980s Coca cola removed cane sugar as their sweetener. The processing of foods with un wanted flavours, dyes, gums etc, probably impairs metabolism a decent bit.
Also "Greeks are mostly a medieval fiction", lmao. I'll read your link with an open mind, but I've never heard about this conspiracy. Sounds like something BAP would say.
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@PrinceTrebata is high fructose corn syrop anti metabolic? Ray said it has unreported starch in it. Dyes and flavors, as well as microplastics are a factor, but the effect seems to be mild compared to PUFA.
BAP actually found the potential fabrication very disorienting, because history has somewhat replaced religion, and the idea of heritage and pining for good ole times is very attractive to many. The cro-magnon and star child skulls could be modern too as there is no real way to tell the age of bones. We should focus more on the last 100 years, since there is a way to see how the food supply was changed.
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@psi Yea its the residue starch which is what causes the problems and obesity. Not as big a problem as pufas, but I think contributes to a lower metabolism.
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@psi that starch in hfcs study got deboonked. no other lab was able to reproduce it and they think it was a measuring error in how they used the equipment
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@Bling5 is HCFS peaty?
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@Bling5 oh, you need to tell haidut
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@PrinceTrebata HFCS is still contaminated with enzymes (my guess) make your own soda
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Hunter gatherer diet, read Weston A. Price but with those concepts applied to White people (Cro Magnon)
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@psi I believe it also is succeptible to heavy metal contamination.
