Dariusz:
> In other words, regularity should not be an issue here? I always did
> think it was more of a way of adapting to the modern lifestyle rather than
> anything else. And you're right, I'm also having a tough time imagining our
> ancestors going by their watch to figure out when to eat (or deciding
> how to combine their meal, for that matter).
I don't think that eating at regular hours is a real problem. Of course,
you shouldn't eat if not "hungry", but there is no clear frontier
between "hungry" and "not hungry". Anyway, if you don't eat huge
amounts of food, your stomach will be empty before the next meal.
Don:
>When in the late spring and summer, and food to gather was plentiful, I
>doubt they bothered to hunt. So animal foods would unlikely be combined
>with gathered foods. But gathered foods could include eggs, though only for
>a few weeks in the spring, bugs, and shellfish if near the shore. Now if I
>was out there hunting and gathering, and I came upon a bunch of blackberry
>bushes, I would go no further and just eat them. Likewise for other fruits
>when they were in season. So I would expect a lot of one food meals.
Agreed. I wanted to say that they rarely had, say, a meal with large
quantities of two DIFFERENT foods. They would, either have large monomeals
(of meat or of fruit), or mix small quantities of many different foods.
But they probably didn't eat 1 pound of olives+ 1 pound of figs.
Best wishes,
Jean-Louis
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