How can people live off off just one food source? Wouldn’t that have some adverse side effects?
In: Biology
Depends how nutritionally diverse the one food source is. Some, typically called “superfoods” contain a wide range of nutrients that allow them to cover a lot of bases. Others are so nutritionally poor that all they’re really providing is calories.
It also depends on the nutrients missing. Some deficiencies manifest much faster than others. Compare for example vitamin C deficiency, which is scurvy, to vitamin D deficiency, which is fragile bones (something you can go never knowing you have if you just never happen to fall down the stairs).
Another thing to consider is that we’re all living with a bunch of adverse side effects of being alive already. Just because you experience them doesn’t mean you necessarily realise that’s what you’re experiencing or how to fix it.
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