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3. The modern lifestyle, and our expectations about food.

Reply to Silent3 (Original post)

Wed Dec 3, 2014, 07:11 PM

Dec 2014

Think of cave dwellers, always searching for food, and eating last scrap whenever they could. Always having to forage for roots and grubby edible insects, and chasing after prey.
Were they overweight? I doubt it.

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Good statistics on weight loss success seem hard to find. [View all] Silent3 Dec 2014 OP

One of the things in life where statistics are meaningless. Socal31 Dec 2014 #1

That's because weight loss is a huge industry with a lot of money changing hands Warpy Dec 2014 #2

The modern lifestyle, and our expectations about food. Quantess Dec 2014 #3

Then again, the average cave dweller life expectancy was in the 20s or less... Silent3 Dec 2014 #4

Absolutely, and we can, which is the best part. Quantess Dec 2014 #5

Portions. Especially in restaurants. SheilaT Dec 2014 #7

Do keep in mind that the life expectancy of a cave dweller SheilaT Dec 2014 #6

I realize that high infant mortality played a part... Silent3 Dec 2014 #8

People died earlier from all sorts of things that simply aren't fatal today, SheilaT Dec 2014 #9