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Apply paleo logic to everything.

We are still like our ancestors, especially metabolically and even socially.

When you try to get a lion to eat and support itself like a sheep then the lion will have both metabolic and psychological problems.

Our body likes sugar because for our ancestors who ate when they could, sugar was an instant source of energy, like honey for example, and could save their lives in the absence of food.

But our body is not made to live on carbohydrates, agriculture only started 10000 years ago and metabolically there is no adaptation, nor would there be because in general cereals have a low nutritional index.

A human can live only eating meat and be completely healthy, but cannot live only eating cereals and be healthy, for the simple fact that meat is the most complete food there is, in fact we do not need anything else.

Unfortunately the Fiat economy makes meat a more and more precious commodity every day, maybe we should consider going back to raising our own animals for self-consumption.

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FiddleHodlHomestead 7mo ago

Yes, I think looking at human history provides a great heuristic: use as a default what our ancestors did for millennia, and approach with caution things outside of that.

Regarding honey - it seems to be such an important food for various indigenous groups, and I've heard crazy claims, like people downing the equivalent of a quart of honey at a time. I don't know if that's true, but if so I wonder if it serves as more than just instant energy. If you're very insulin sensitive, a lot of honey several times/year might get converted quickly into bodyfat that can be accessed later as needed.

I'm not pushing honey, and the reason we homestead is in fact to raise our own meat. I've just wondered about this. It's hard to gain extra fat eating fat and meat, which seems like a good thing these days but would not have been great when we relied on hunting.