grumble11 t1_itv46ee wrote
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Sure which is all technology. Sanitation isn’t a lifestyle change.
Farmers also weren’t exactly healthier - the average size of a farmer shrank materially versus hunters and signs of malnutrition were obvious and frequent - but they were more reliably able to access calories over time so it won out. Do you believe that you are unable to access calories now?
Spend a large amount of time outdoors, moderate exercise for hours a day, whole unprocessed food you could find a thousand years ago, sleep adequately and early.
jah05r t1_itv6ct3 wrote
Sanitation was absolutely a lifestyle change. Things like washing your hands and bathing regularly were nowhere close to standard practice until quite recently.
And the reason it seems like farmers shrank in size is because so many more of them lived into old age. You no longer had to be the biggest or strongest to survive, and the extraordinary steps that Hunter-gatherers took to control population size (aka infanticide) were no longer necessary because enough food was available for a larger population.
Do you honestly think calories were more accessible to Hunter-gatherers than they are now?
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