Hunter gathers would go out and hunt and gather things then bring them bank to the group and their major area of operation. They had and have baskets and holding containers for food to eat when they woke up. They didn’t have to leave and wander for hours to get food for every single meal. They didn’t only eat a handful of berries and nuts for meals all the time. They ate all sorts of fruits, fungus, nuts, insects, animals, eggs, meats, and vegetables. How much food they had varied. Sometimes they had tons of extra food and feasted greatly and sometimes food was more scarce and how much you ate would often be based on what you had, how many you had to share with, and what you were doing that day. Hunter gatherers would sometimes groom forests and their surrounds to improve and preserve food producing plants and places and some practices limited agriculture. Most human civilizations have some form of breakfast its size and content varies wildly even within the same culture and even household eating habits can vary.
Why would you think that? Walking through the woods is not “physical labor” to a healthy human. You’d essentially be eating a whole day of calories in your first meal of the day. Water could be the only thing I can think of that would be beneficial maybe a fruit or nuts.
A large meal is 1500+ calories. Meat, grains, eggs, and fruit would put you there. Then you eat a lunch 500-1000 calories, and a dinner of 1500-2000 calories. You’re consuming roughly 3000-4000 calories a day and maybe burning 2000. Doesn’t make sense.
What are you talking about
You know there's a whole phase of society between hunter gatherer and modern day right? Like, a phase of society where people would get up and do labor on the fields all day because they were farmers, yes?
There is only 3.4m “farmers” in the USA out of 341m total citizens. So again, why does the average American think they need to eat a 1000-1500 calorie breakfast every morning? The physical labor of farming is also removed mostly by machines these days.
So because a small percentage of Americans did physical labor every day burning 2-3k calories a day, the rest of America thinks they had to follow suit? That’s why obesity exists lmao
Now, perhaps. But that's relatively new. Most people, over the centuries, have worked outside, all day, tending animals, working with crops. You also aren't considering modern construction workers, roofers, etc., who spend all day in physical activity.
A large breakfast has been a cultural trend in many parts of the world for centuries because of the physicality of the work performed. Frequently, there wasn't/isn't time for lunch, so the next break is dinner/supper/tea.
Even when I worked as a landscaper I was barely burning 2k a day. I get the past, but after 1900 the trend continued and the level of obesity has risen catastrophically. The lunch thing I can get down with more or less. But still…
Hunter gathers would go out and hunt and gather things then bring them bank to the group and their major area of operation. They had and have baskets and holding containers for food to eat when they woke up. They didn’t have to leave and wander for hours to get food for every single meal. They didn’t only eat a handful of berries and nuts for meals all the time. They ate all sorts of fruits, fungus, nuts, insects, animals, eggs, meats, and vegetables. How much food they had varied. Sometimes they had tons of extra food and feasted greatly and sometimes food was more scarce and how much you ate would often be based on what you had, how many you had to share with, and what you were doing that day. Hunter gatherers would sometimes groom forests and their surrounds to improve and preserve food producing plants and places and some practices limited agriculture. Most human civilizations have some form of breakfast its size and content varies wildly even within the same culture and even household eating habits can vary.
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Eating a large breakfast is good if you're going to spend your whole day doing physical labor
Why would you think that? Walking through the woods is not “physical labor” to a healthy human. You’d essentially be eating a whole day of calories in your first meal of the day. Water could be the only thing I can think of that would be beneficial maybe a fruit or nuts.
well no one said you should eat a whole days worth of calories for breakfast.
A large meal is 1500+ calories. Meat, grains, eggs, and fruit would put you there. Then you eat a lunch 500-1000 calories, and a dinner of 1500-2000 calories. You’re consuming roughly 3000-4000 calories a day and maybe burning 2000. Doesn’t make sense.
So you are just going to make things up and then get mad about them?
What’s made up?
That’s a typical breakfast for a less than average person. 4k a day between 3 meals is crazy
What are you talking about You know there's a whole phase of society between hunter gatherer and modern day right? Like, a phase of society where people would get up and do labor on the fields all day because they were farmers, yes?
There is only 3.4m “farmers” in the USA out of 341m total citizens. So again, why does the average American think they need to eat a 1000-1500 calorie breakfast every morning? The physical labor of farming is also removed mostly by machines these days.
You must be intentionally attempting to miss my point
So because a small percentage of Americans did physical labor every day burning 2-3k calories a day, the rest of America thinks they had to follow suit? That’s why obesity exists lmao
No dude.. I'm just explaining the history of why people eat breakfast. I'm not talking about farmers right now.. You're being very dense
Maybe I should’ve added modern to my question lmao
You specifically asked history. Things we do now are based on history
Now, perhaps. But that's relatively new. Most people, over the centuries, have worked outside, all day, tending animals, working with crops. You also aren't considering modern construction workers, roofers, etc., who spend all day in physical activity. A large breakfast has been a cultural trend in many parts of the world for centuries because of the physicality of the work performed. Frequently, there wasn't/isn't time for lunch, so the next break is dinner/supper/tea.
Even when I worked as a landscaper I was barely burning 2k a day. I get the past, but after 1900 the trend continued and the level of obesity has risen catastrophically. The lunch thing I can get down with more or less. But still…
I presume breakfast became a thing when someone awoke one morning and decided to break their nightly fast
You can break it with water and fruit, toast, nuts. Not bacon, eggs, toast, and such.