1 month ago17 points(+0/-0/+17Score on mirror)1 child
Wow look at all those fats and carbs. These people must have been fat as shit. I better go consume my [seed oil based egg replacement](https://www.ju.st/)
1 month ago13 points(+0/-0/+13Score on mirror)1 child
Probably because the most common means of dying in the 1800s was dysentery, TB or being shot to death in war.
I kid. But even 100 years ago, we were eating far better than today. And it's because we ate and drank food with natural ingredients, fried with natural lubricants and inside natural packaging. Coke was in glasses, not shitty plastic or cans with plastic linings in them. And it used real sugar too, not HFCS.
We also didn't have seed oils in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
1 month ago5 points(+0/-0/+5Score on mirror)1 child
It’s weird how many people still want to pretend that jews didn’t completely criminalize or demonize natural medicines (clean food and living) while literally making it illegal to not poison your kids with weapons-grade neurotoxins at birth.
1 month ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)2 children
Before vaccines the childhood mortality rate was horrifying by today's standards. You had to have 10 kids because at least 1 or 2 of them wouldn't survive childhood.
This guy is a joke. He acts like "germ theory" isn't the basis for a more than century-old robust field of study and countless life-saving treatments. He acts like we have to reject very obvious medical facts or else we're booster-jabbed pharma shills. If you push him his argument always boils down to "virus never been isolated!" and if you try to shut him down he puts his fingers in his ears and screams. And worst of all he literally thinks the Earth is flat and space is fake.
I'm sick of seeing his ignorant retarded takes on this board.
Another important bit to note that seems to always be left out in these discussions is that the average person back then was much more physically active back then due to the necessities of life demanding more physical labor than they do today
1 month ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
This is some romanticized bullshit. In the 1800s the average American ate some leftover bread for breakfast, maybe some porridge. Lunch was heavier, but probably did not include such a large serving of meat. Dinner could be whatever was available, but fresh fruit was uncommon unless you were out in the country.
And to address the post title:
1. Heart disease is typically a result of, or comes along with, obesity. See #4.
2. Cancer was not a major cause of death because life expectancy was lower, due to poorer nutrition and common diseases. The human body was clearly not designed to work well past 60. It wasn't until the vast majority of people started living into their 70s and 80s that cancer became a problem. Because our bodies aren't equipped to prevent it by that point. What a lot of people don't realize is that you probably have cancerous cells in your body right now. But your body will beat them on its own without you noticing it. But when we get older, that becomes less successful, and the amount of cancerous cells popping up gets higher, because the whole body breaks down with age.
3. Type 2 diabetes is caused by eating too many sugars. Most people in the 1800s weren't financially capable of acquiring the amount of refined sugar necessary to get Type 2 diabetes. And for the unlucky few who had Type 1 diabetes, well, they fucking died as kids and no one knew why. Pretty hard to list diabetes as a cause of death if doctors don't even know about it.
4. Obesity in and of itself is not a cause of death, but rather it leads to all sorts of other problems, such as heart disease. But the cause of obesity is eating too much food. And most people in the 1800s were, to some extent, growth stunted and nutritionally deficient. So yeah, not too much obesity to be found...
Apples varieties that could be stored for long periods like the “Arkansas Black” were more popular back in the day than sweeter and aesthetically pleasing varieties. There were many fruit varieties popular back then but not as much now. Fruit trees were a real cash crop in certain regions.
It’s true that porridge was popular back then but watching historical cooking videos it shows that these were all common staples as shown.
In reality the major causes of death was dysentery, measles, and other varieties of infectious deseases.
I ate ceviche with a medium avocado on the side. Tomorrow it will be sausage, cabbage and potato stew for BF. I find it easier to just repeat what I had for dinner for breakfast.