The average human gets 20% of their calories from wheat.

another 16% from rice

another 13% from maize

So far all starches! And that is HALF the diet!

Imagine a plate, and half of it is wheat, rice, and maize. Every meal like that. Every person like that. Wow.

another 8% from soybeans

another 5% from sugarcane (probably as white sugar)

More carbs!

That's already 63% of the human diet.

Yes, 63%. I rounded the above numbers. Why are you checking my work? Don't you trust me?

Next is 3.8% from pig meat. Finally some meat! The total meat will be more than 7% once we count it all.

Imagine those carnivore diet people. Fuck 7%. They are at 100% (I suppose?)

3.1% from rape and mustard seed (probably as canola oil)

2.1% from potatoes (more starch!)

Wait... people get more calories from canola oil than from potatoes!?

2.1% from barley (more starch!)

1.9% from poultry meat. Finally some more meat, but this so far adds to 5.7% meat. I hope there is more...

Finally we get to 1.8% from all other vegetables combined.

So those recommendations that say your plate should be 1/2 vegetables.. I guess they didn't consult with the food growers of the world first.

1.7% from sugarbeet (as more white sugar again!)

1.5% from groundnuts (is that peanuts?)

1.4% from sorghum (I'm not even sure what sorghum is)

and then 1.4% from bovine meat... Our meat total is now up to 7.1%.

That's the end of the list. Everything else was too small to count.

Historically a number of other crops have made up large portions of the human diet such as: Rye, Jerusalem artichoke, Cassava, Sweet Potato, Parsnips, Broad (Fava) beans, and Squash / Pumpkin. Did I miss any? I'd like to know if I did.

your attempt to argue that grains are food because that's what the average person in Africa or India eats is as asinine as if i tried to argue that FOX and MSNBC is news because that's where the average boomer gets their news from

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The OP seems more like shock that carbs are such a high percentage of calorie consumption rather than an advocacy for that to be the norm. It would be very easy to use these statistics to show why so much of the world is malnourished. Whether they are under- or over-fed, they are lacking nutrition because of the reliance on carbs for the foundation of caloric intake.

try not to sound like AI bot next time. i almost blocked you.

Go ahead. Sorry I proofread my notes before posting.

Nah you're a harmless NPC

not going to block

Cooked grains have almost no antinutrients. And after grinding even the starch granule structure cannot impede digestion.

Grains are the poor man's staple for very, very good reasons.

They don't have a lot of protein (okay, quinoa is good, hard bread wheat okay), but at least their not chock-full of antinutrients like legumes are.

but nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c is not poor

he just eats grains because he thinks he is proving something to me

not only is nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c not poor he raises his own Sheep, but instead of eating them he eats grains because he "believes in the science"

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He does have some health challenges that we do not, as I understand it.

In any case, let's not turn this thread into /r/IAmTheMainCharacter

we all have those health challenges - some of us just haven't realized it yet

we are all on the same trajectory to diabetes, heart disease and death

i would not comment on his diet if i thought his situation was unique

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