Most animals have a fairly simple diet, carnivores eat only meat their whole life, cows eat exclusively grass etc. So why are human bodies so picky and need a balance of protein, fat, carbs etc from different sources to perform well?
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Seen this BBC documentary about a black reporter seeking his African roots, he went to live with a family in the middle of nowhere with the intention of staying a month
They lived in a mud house, wake up in the morning eating some fire cooked flour and spend the whole day trying to find some grass, plants or any food they could find
The reporter left before the week was over but the lesson for me was how shocking amazingly little food they needed to get by and stay active searching, their environmental footprint was almost animal level
Granted that they were living pretty suboptimal lives in the middle of a draught area but regardless the comparison between their food consumption and ours was huge
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