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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 40 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You don't have to do all of that to eat it, you just have to do all of that to make bread. You can make bread from oats, you can also process it less and make porridge.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 days ago

In the conditions in which they made it, porridge was often also beer(ish).

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

You can also just straight up eat it. Yeah, you'll get runny shits from eating excessive amounts of fiber, but that's probably the first way it was eaten

[–] Soulcreator@programming.dev 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean you'll probably get runny shits from eating it due to the excess fiber, but I'm fairly certain the ancient nomadic tribes who first started eating wheat like that probably had significantly more fiber in their diets than modern man and eating it like that would probably be far less of a shock to their system than us puny fiber weaklings.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

You are correct but no need to say "modern man". Biologically we are the same as those humans. We would just need to adjust to the new diet. Our bodies can still handle their lifestyle

[–] Soulcreator@programming.dev 7 points 5 days ago

To clarify by modern man, I meant a human living in the year 2026 who eats a "modern diet" of (at least partially) processed foods with significantly lower fiber intake than that of a preindustrial man. (Obviously this would be excluding currently living humans who are living in tribal conditions, such as those living in North Sentinel Island.)

I was not attempting to imply that those living at that time were of a different species than homosapiens. To be honest if they were a different species I'm not sure my comment would have made sense as different homo species would likely have subtle differences in their digestive tracks than homosapiens.

[–] p_consti@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Our bodies never stopped evolving. Where do you think lactose intolerance (or lack thereof) is coming from? Originally it was just a few that could drink milk, now it's a significantly higher percentage of the population.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

I think modern can be used in the sense of being not adjusted to harsher conditions

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago

mmm hallucinogenic grain fungus.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

And planted...