The first big turn happened with the Agricultural Revolution. Right around 10,000 years ago, when former hunter-gatherers began growing grain seeds in neat, organized rows, something happened. Population exploded, because we now had a steady source of calories. Villages and cities sprang up, because we no longer had to follow our food. We could simply grow it where we lived.
Those sound like pretty good things, at first. More food and shelter sounds good, right?
Well, something else happened, too. Those early farmers were shorter than the hunter-gatherers they replaced. They didn’t live as long, and they had smaller brains. They got a lot more infectious diseases and more cavities. In short, they were not as healthy as the hunter-gatherers. Same genes, same homo sapiens, different environment, worse health.-How Agriculture Ruined Your Health (and What to Do About It)
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Agricultural Ruined Our Health
Mark Sisson of Mark’s Daily Apple explains what to do about it (change your diet, man!)...
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