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This Is How Our Ancestors Ate To Never Get Sick!

12 May 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that chronic disease rates a century ago were dramatically lower—up to 700% lower—than today, and that obesity was virtually nonexistent. He attributes this to the way people ate back then: they consumed far more calories (e.g., a 9‑year‑old child ate nearly 2,000 kcal per day), ate carbohydrates freely (jellies, honey, baked goods, seasonal fruits year‑round), and ate large amounts of meat, saturated fat, and collagen‑rich parts such as bones, tendons, and connective tissue, which were used to make broths, soups, and stews. The speaker contrasts this ancestral eating pattern with modern dietary advice that limits calories, carbs, and saturated fat. He concludes by offering to share historical recipes to viewers who comment, positioning the ancestral diet as a blueprint for preventing chronic disease.

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Did you know that a century ago chronic disease rates were 700% lower than they are today and obesity was basically non-existent? I actually found some old documents that show us how people used to eat in those times, which may explain this phenomenon. The first thing I noticed is that they ate a lot of calories at that time. A 9-year-old child was consuming almost 2,000 calories per day. The word diet wasn't even a thing. Now you have people normalizing 1,500 calories per day, which is less than a 9-year-old person used to eat back at that time. The second thing I noticed, they were not scared of carbs. They were consuming jellies, honeys, baked goods, seasonal fruits all year round, and it didn't seem to affect their health. Third thing, they ate a lot of meat, saturated fat— exactly the opposite of what our mainstream media is telling us to do. But they didn't just eat the skeletal muscle like chicken breast and ribeye. They also cooked the bones, the tendons, all the collagenous parts to make broth, soups, and stews. I went back and dug and found a ton of recipes that our ancestors used to use that speaks to this type of eating when we didn't have chronic disease. Comment the word recipes below and I'll send them to you for free.