Here's an interesting quote from an MSN article...

In medieval Europe, white bread was a luxury for royalty, while coarse, dark bread was for peasants. White bread symbolized refinement and high status. Its production required more labor, adding to its exclusivity.

As baking techniques evolved, white bread became accessible to all. Although artisan and specialty breads have reintroduced an air of luxury, bread remains a staple across cultures.

This reminded me of a scene in the movie Little Women in 1994. The mother and her 3 daughters become destitute after the man of the house dies. In one scene, someone brings them food and among what he brings is a giant load/roll of bread, and one of the girls is like "Oh my God! It's actually real bread" implying they haven't had bread in a long time because it was a luxury.

It took a lot of investment and time to grow it, harvest it, mill it, separate the wheat from the chaff, make a flour, bake it, etc. Yes, we may have at bread, but it wasn't nearly as common as it is today, and was far more valuable than 99 cents a loaf, lol.

I read an article last night about our ancestors eating patterns and I normally delete my searches form the work computer. Now I can't find it. I will continue to look as it was quite interesting. I will summarize and paraphrase and I feel like I will get the intent right, but I may butcher the delivery. LOL

We were never meant to have variety in our diet. The proper human diet was based on food that was hunted and killed. The electrolytes (salt) we depend on stemmed more from man learning to preserve meat vs. salt being a seasoning. No cave man sat out early in the morning to kill a chicken, a duck, a pig, a deer all in the same day so there would be variety in that weeks' meals. The reason so many people seem to do better on red meat is that was the hunting objective and not because it was better, or taste better, but it was simply bigger. Walking for distance, setting up, stalking, hunting for several hours for a chicken is not the most efficient way to feed the family/village. The bigger animals happen to be bearers of red meat. And the bigger animal fed more people for longer periods of time.

Now along the way the variety came when the big animal hunt fails or the little animal steps out and becomes an opportunity. Hunters will attest that a deer is not killed on every trip to the woods. If on the big animal hunt a little animal steps out, at least that is a meal for that day. Variety in the meals were not by design but by opportunity.

Fruits and vegetables (and in time bread) were seasonal. The apple tree only bears fruit but so many weeks during the year. And food/diet patterns started to shift based on geographic location. Eskimos were making do with whale blubber while Floridians had oranges for ever so many weeks per year. Alaskan vegetables had a very small window. People adjust.

That was the gist of the article of how a lot of our dietary issues can be linked to our ancestors and where they called home. Similar to Geezy speaking to lactose intolerance amongst different backgrounds last Monday night.

This kinda sort of leans toward and speaks toward the Lion Diet being successful and when people who go from keto to keto-vore to a stricter carnivore approach see more than positive results.

Not exactly from the article but in reading this piece it makes me thing we were sort of pre-dispositioned to eat a certain way. When we find that way the positives are amazing.

Scott

There has been a couple of times in my life when I was pretty destitute and all I had was bread from the day old store. At one point I was starving for about 3 months and had nothing to eat but homemade flour tortillas that I made at the stove while in a walker. I am so grateful for God’s blessing today and for the trials He put me through in the past.

No doubts. I am extremely thankful myself.

I think for the human race as a whole we have shown we can survive on just about anything. We can survive on just about every diet, every eating habit, every food choice out there. Most of us have shown whatever path we took it did get us to the point we made the change. Up until that point, especially looking back, I was eating to survive.

Once I changed approaches I think now, I am eating to thrive.

Two totally different concepts.

Scott