sladerunner69
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I would be surprised if it weren't more than that for quite a lot of people for quite a lot of the time, when available. Scarcity has been an important limiter for most of history.
Not representative, but Chris Kresser has this to say about working class Briton 1850-1880:
"Another advantage they had is that due to their physically demanding lifestyle, men and women during that time period ate twice as many calories as we do today. Men could consume upwards of 5,000 calories on a workday, and women over 3,000. The sheer quantity of food they ate, combined with its superior quality, resulted in average micronutrient levels 10 times higher than those of modern diets."
https://chriskresser.com/what-mid-victorians-can-teach-us-about-nutrition-and-health/
based on this paper:
How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died
"Analysis of the mid-Victorian period in the U.K. reveals that life expectancy at age 5 was as good or better than exists today, and the incidence of degenerative disease was 10% of ours. Their levels of physical activity and hence calorific intakes were approximately twice ours. They had relatively little access to alcohol and tobacco; and due to their correspondingly high intake of fruits, whole grains, oily fish and vegetables, they consumed levels of micro- and phytonutrients at approximately ten times the levels considered normal today. This paper relates the nutritional status of the mid-Victorians to their freedom from degenerative disease; and extrapolates recommendations for the cost-effective improvement of public health today."
How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died
Less than 1000 cals a day?
Yeah I like those articles, quite interesting reads thanks
However Im not talking about modern humans, and Victorians are still considerred modern humans. Im talking about humans up until civilization. Humans have been around in some cro-magnon form for perhaps a million years before modern humans, and I was making the point that none of them would be eating very many carbs or sugars on a daily basis...