[thaumasiotes]

> The typical western diet is a shit show, imo

On the other hand, from The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han:

> In the Eastern Han [roughly 25-220 AD] a celebration was held each autumn at the Old Man Star Shrine south of the capital. During this feast those who had reached the age of seventy were given imperial staffs and fed by hand with rice gruel (on the assumption that they had lost their teeth). The staff had a model of a dove perched on its top, because the dove was said to never choke

Sometimes there's no real reason to believe things were different in the past.

[tomerv]

The cause for losing teeth is very different from cavities.