How much of these problems was just a matter of becoming more socially active rather than hunter/gatherer active. I mean there’s a real difference between what farmer’s do to harvest grains and what Paleo- men/women did to hunt animals. Could the difference in health be attributed to the sustained hunts, rather than the stress of the harvest of grains?

First of all, to generalize the diet of an entire population based on the state of one of their Queens is irresponsible, at best. As has been pointed out in other responses, the amount and variety of food available to the Queen is not the same as would have been available to the general population, nor would she have a typical level of physical activity within her society.

Secondly, it has been made abundantly clear that the people who built the pyramids at Giza ate an astronomical amount of beef and fish- enough beef to feed tens of thousands of workers EVERY DAY for 30 years, not to mention MILLIONS of fish bones, not only throughout the industrial baking and butchering complex, but also in the mess halls and living quarters excavated there.

It is true that these same people also ate bread and drank a bread-beer, but they also spend thousands of calories a day building pyramids and engaging in back-breaking support work for the builders. These activities engaged a far more significant proportion of the civilization than a single Queen.

Finally, it is the fact that early homo sapiens sapiens ate more than just meat that ensured their survival. Testing of neanderthal remains shows that they, unlike their modern human counterparts, ate ONLY meat, and because of this, they did not survive.

Thus, to suggest that the eating of carbohydrates is the root cause of humanity’s obesity issues is misleading, poorly researched and just plain wrong.

Next time, discuss your armchair theories with currently working anthropologists and archaeologists before jumping to egregiously erroneous conclusions.

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These diets get most of their calories from starch–which could be (but doesn’t have to be) from grains.