[triceratops]

Humans have relied on bread, pasta, rice, and tubers for most of their calories since time immemorial. Japanese people eat plenty of rice even today and they are very healthy.

"Food pyramid dumb, eat meat" is a very reductive take.

[throwaway27448]

Only the last hundred to twenty thousand years or so. Evolutionarily speaking, that's not our typical diet. Maybe excepting tubers.

[triceratops]

Explain Japan.

[throwaway27448]

I never said eating rice was bad for you, but fruits, nuts, meats are also human staples. The big thing domesticated cereal brought us was rapid population growth and the state.

[mixmastamyk]

Folks had to do the harvest and milling work themselves until recently, it’s not the same. Nor are the quantities.

[triceratops]

That's what I mean by reductive. Lifestyle changes, processed food filled with sugar and marketed by corporations...they all played a part.