Thread: Why are we getting fatter?

The reason our society is so fat is because our bodies are not fully adapted to modern foods. It is easy to recognize that processed foods are too new and definitely unhealthy, but Paleo enthusiasts insist that the dairy and grains that entered our diets during the agricultural revolution are just as bad.

Think about it: how many times have you seen a fat caveman? With the exception of Fred Flintstone, we are used to our ancestors who lived 12,000 years ago being portrayed as lean, slender, muscular beings.

While the lifestyle of hunter‐gatherer tribes probably helped somewhat to contribute to their svelte figures, historians surprisingly say they did not exert much energy in their daily lives. One hunting expedition would provide an entire tribe with food for a long time, and they did not expend any energy growing or cultivating crops because they simply ate what grew naturally in their environment. Their overall way of life was rather sedentary. In the study "The Original Affluent Society", anthropologist Marshall Sahlins points out how hunter‐gatherer tribes worked far less than their "modern" industrial counterparts. He estimated our ancestors averaged only 3 to 5 hours of work each week.

Rather than mistakenly attributing the health of hunter‐gatherers to their "active" lifestyle, skeptics should focus more on the absence of fatty meats and sugary foods that did not exist thousands of years ago.

The introduction of these agrarian foods was the beginning of the Agricultural Revolution, as well as the beginning of the end of mankind's health.

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Originally Posted by Hubauer

I'm not getting fatter... are you?

Before, but now I'm physically fit that's because of good eating habits and of course daily exercise..