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givemeethekeyslast Thursday at 5:44 AM1 replyview on HN

Farming diets are rich in calories. Great for farmers. Not so great for desk jockeys.


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woodruffwlast Thursday at 12:50 PM

I think most farming diets in India are closer to subsistence diets, or at least historically have been.

(If you have resources that show otherwise, that would be interesting. But smoking really does seem like the obvious historical outlying factor for heart disease in India, with calorie-dense diets playing catch up as the country has become wealthier.)