The hunter-gatherer diet and all those carbohydrates we eat

[Idaho]

What the whole stone-age diet thing is ignoring is that agriculturial society has caused massive die-offs and population explosions. The very essence of evolution is hurling population at a situation and seeing what lives. Humans have not only lived, but now have life expectancies 3-4 times longer than 20,000 years ago. It works.

 

[Kripcat]

One of the most impressive feats of crapitalism is the variety of ways it can sell flavoured sugary water IMO

Gees up all night on that one?

 

[kyser_soze]

Worth pointing out as well that many h-g tribes indulged in limited forms of agriculture as a way of ensuring food supplies, both vegetable and animal (planting crops attracts certain insects & plants, which in turn attracts larger animals such as predators, grazers or scavengers, which in turn gives hom sap both meat and two veg in his little patch.

Lots didn't - one of the most magnificent things about our h-g ancestors was that they were able to adapt enough, in enough places (most of the planet - no other basic level species is able to exist in as many separate environments as humans), to breed and most importantly keep the kids alive.
BTW, cheers for the Guns, Germs and Steel stuff...I'm gonna look that up as a torrent...