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Comment by TeMPOraL

4 days ago

Well, it was good for us when we first tamed fire, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Ain't greater modern cargo cult than "healthy food".

People didn’t live very long when we first tamed fire - not because of diet, but because something else in nature would eventually get you first. So it didn’t really matter what early humans ate as long as it gave them immediate energy.

People only needed to live long enough to reproduce, and that’s what our bodies are optimized for. Most people would prefer to live longer, though. ;)