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Mike Dilger ☑️

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.

Dissident Sound 7mo ago

the real questions are:

1 - what did people eat before the agricultural revolution

2 - what do the highest class, most intelligent, highest performance people eat today

the answer to both questions is - not grain or seed oils

you're supposed to be intelligent yet you do not seem to understand that what the average person eats is simply what is cheapest, which tells us a lot about agriculture and food processing technology but tells us NOTHING about human health

human genome did not evolve around tractors and food processing plants

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Chris Krause 7mo ago

But human civilization did.

Dissident Sound 7mo ago

i see you have a shoe on your head just like Mike

you can be buried in the same grave with the same tombstone that reads

"they believed in the science"

Low Information Voter 7mo ago

Homo Habilis crushed and pounded seeds and tubers, to improve the starch absorption even without fire tech and cooking.

I'm sure they preferred meat, when they could get it, but processed grains have been part of our ancestral diet. Just not a dominant part, until the rise of sedentary horticulture.

Dissident Sound 7mo ago

tell me - what percent of calories IN THE WILD is in grains versus in meat ?

have you ever come across a field of corn or wheat in the wild ?

the roads around here are littered with run over Deer.

grains were used by civilizations around the time of Ancient Egypt and there are drawings around that time depicting agriculture

but if you look at really old cave drawings - there is nothing to suggest agriculture existed in that time

Low Information Voter 7mo ago

Up to about 30% by many estimates. But the uncertainty bars are very wide. Would have varied enormously by season and ecotype.

Yes, I have seen patches of wild Nardoo growing here. And that's in AU, with the most miserly edible plant inheritance of any inhabited continent. Middle Eastern wheat and barley had much larger and more palatable seeds even before domestication.

Pre-industrial population densities were very low, and pre-agricultural even more so, didn't need large fields of monoculture.

Dissident Sound 7mo ago

what modern day wild animals have diet consisting mainly of grain ? do monkeys eat grains ? do cows ? do wolves ?

only species i know that eat grain is birds.

in fact the bastards ate up most of the seed on my lawn but the joke is on them because it was treated with some kind of fungicide ...

Low Information Voter 7mo ago

Cattle totally will given a chance. Most herbivores will seek out grain in preference to leaves.

Is a 100% grain diet good for them? No, but its not a serious option in their ancestral environment, so there was no fitness cost in optimising their preferences for grain.

Dissident Sound 7mo ago

ask yourself this in fact - why does nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c raise sheep instead of growing corn or wheat ? now realize that for the same exact reason his ancestors would also be shepherds before they would grow grain.

his delusion is that he thinks his ancestors were wrong and some fucking "doctor" on YouTube really loves him and cares about him and is telling him the truth about how he needs to eat the bugs.

Mike doesn't believe that Klaus Schwab and WEF are real ... he "believes in the science"

unbelievable level of naivete to entrust your health to some sociopath who became popular on a platform owned by billionaire Jews ...

it's not that he's stupid - it's that he simply doesn't see the whole picture like i do.

nothing in this world is isolated. everything is interconnected.

knowledge, like health, is holistic. you are either healthy or you're not. and you either understand the world or you do not.

idiots think they can improve their health by treating some symptom, or that they are intelligent because they know some bit of trivia.

but like Elon Musk said knowledge is a tree - you need roots and a stem before you can worry about the leaves.

the problem with all of you techies is you don't have any roots or stem - you are just leaves carried by the wind. you know how to code but you don't even know how computers work, let alone how the world works.

meanwhile i know everything ... except how to code. LOL