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How on Earth did we survive/evolve to this point without counting our calories/macros?

The stone age man must have been so obese and unhealthy without all this modern counting tools.

Or perhaps we need to count calories and macros because we are eating processed junk. Eating real food and your body responds correctly.

I find it sad that society has come to this level.

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The stone age man wasn't spending half a day sitting staring at a screen either and was probably more physically active overall...

Exactly, Stone Age man had to hunt his food and that meant hiking/hunting all day long until you found some game. And then there were days where you had to go a day or a few without eating anything other than some berries.

A priori that story seems right. But surely early man still had to survive Winter, so they actually would have had techniques to store and preserve foods (smoking, drying) and so would likely have picked a pile of berries/nuts and carried them to ration over the time spent hunting, or kept dried meat to hand? For sure you'd also have days where you'd eaten all the food, just as people do now.

Early man lived in places without winter

Equatorial regions still have seasons, wet-dry : I should perhaps have said non-growing season.

I mean early as in > c.8 kya.

Wikipedia suggests Scandinavia had hunter-fisher-gatherers about 11kya, I'm guessing they did preserving at least!?

Stone age man was probably on the verge of starvation quite regularly

No they werent. Hunter gatherers worked significantly less than we do now.

We were the most successful hunters in the history of the planet.

Just another result of everyone wanting everything faster, cheaper & easier. The greedy urge to get more profit drives companies to work against people.

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