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>Who says we must eat poor quality food?

Hi, Robert.  The food we eat today is not the same as in paleolithic times.
We spend a lot of time on this list moaning over meat, but fruits and
vegetables have taken big hits too.  Who knows when plant breeding began in
earnest, but the so-called Agricultural Revolution gives us a starting
point.   Luther Burbank was practically worshipped at one time, but even the
stock he worked with had undergone change over millenia.   Nevertheless--and
I'm no expert on this--it's probably pretty accurate to say that intensive
plant breeding  on such a large scale has only occurred in the last several
decades.  In general, fruits are much sweeter, fibrous vegetables are less
fibrous, many or most are genetically polyploidy with multiple sets of
chromosomes, and all produce is larger than the original parent stock.  Some
might say that all these "improvements" result in poor quality food.   Are
our bodies really adapted to dealing with the big hits of sugar that modern
fruits provide?

Theola