> From: Karl Alexis McKinnon <[log in to unmask]>
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> mechanized."  As pointed out in NeanderThin, food is abundant in
> Hunter-Gatherer societies.  Starvation is quite rare, etc.  The
> food-on-demand that Americans enjoy doesn't cause obesity.  (It adds to
> it, no doubt, but in America the poor - those least likely to have excess
> money to spend on food and most likely to be doing high-caloric labor -
> are the fattest).

Caloric intake has little to do with money (except when you are extremely poor,
of course). Potatoes and wheat are cheap sources of calories. I doubt that these
poor obese people are starving from lack of food (except rare cases).

BTW, I wonder how much hunter-gatherers could eat every day. Would 6500 calories
be possible? Eating so much while being relatively inactive seems wrong to me
anyway: I think that a healthy way of eating should be approximately our daily
caloric requirement (about 2500 calories; depends on your level of activity).

Best wishes,

Jean-Louis
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