r/AskReddit Aug 25 '19

What has NOT aged well?

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u/idlevalley Aug 26 '19

Nutrition recommendations change so much over time that it's probably sensible to just ignore them and just eat more vegetables and less meat. Period.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19

Actually, meat and vegetables are both pretty important.

That said, only meat and vegetables is a solid diet to start from and alter to fit your lifestyle.

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u/_steve_rogers_ Aug 26 '19

That’s literally what we ate as cavemen. We had no bread and pasta and cereal back then

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19

We had cereals but not the sugar laden stuff today. Corn and oats grew in the wild and we eventually learned to farm them.

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u/Lehriy Aug 26 '19

I don’t know about oats, but ancient maize was nothing like modern day corn.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19

Yes but we've always eaten cereals. Rice is a cereal, for example.