If we need calcium to survive, how did proto-humans live long enough to reproduce? I mean, doctors tell us all the time that we need to eat/drink enough dairy to keep our bones from disintegrating. If that's true, how did we survive back when we weren't milking cows and only getting milk as babies? Does anybody know how this works?
Maybe it just makes us die sooner, but we live long enough so that we can procreate. After all, human life expectancy increased dramatically once we invented science. I can see that sort of working out, but wouldn't that make us pretty much useless as a species. Like, if we don't get something that we would think we don't anymore once we turn two, then we die horribly from Osteoporosis? Wouldn't that make us terribly inefficient? Do other animals have this problem as well, but just don't bitch about it as much? And if that is the case, who the hell figured this out? Who was the man who thought it would be a good idea to milk a cow? Was he on drugs or something?
Maybe human beings just suck now, and we can't survive without it because we've become addicted to milk as a species*. Seriously, am I the only one who wonders about this kind of stuff?**
*May not be actual science.
**Probably.
Vitamin D is found in fatty fish, eggs, mushrooms and beef liver, so it's pretty feasible that our ancestors had their share of it.
ReplyDeleteWhoops, we're talking about calcium...derp. That's in oranges, beans, okra, broccoli and some other leafy greens
ReplyDeleteIf that's the case, then why are advertisers pushing milk on us for calcium?
ReplyDeleteGood to know that the answer to most of life's questions is "Because executives are dicks".
Also the life span was ridiculously short (compared to now) way back in the day, so some of the more long term conditions weren't seen as as big of a problem as, say, "getting trampled by large animals" itis. So people got their babbys formed early.
ReplyDeleteI acknowledge that, but I think it still leaves some questions open. Did this happen at all, or were we more awesome back then?
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