Again, after living in rural communities, they largely eat what they can get - which includes a lot of raw fruits and vegetables. Of course meat is important, but no more important than nuts, berries, tubers etc.
Again, after living in rural communities, they largely eat what they can get - which includes a lot of raw fruits and vegetables. Of course meat is important, but no more important than nuts, berries, tubers etc.
[1] https://aeji.journals.ekb.eg/article_17804.html
[2] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2017.0156...
That's all and good, but how do you even know that? One can live with parasites for quite a while before noticing any symptoms.
I come from a 'third world' country. We really wash our fruits and specially our vegetables. Even though they might come from large farming operations, you can still have people without proper sanitization handling them after taking a dump.
Heck, there are still places where you cannot enter a body of water without worms piercing your skin and having a party in your intestines. Our elementary school curriculum was pretty extensive on diseases and specially parasites.
> The idea people throughout history didn't eat raw fruits and vegetables is also quite wrong.
They did. People also died a lot. Although a berry growing somewhere in the wilderness will probably have less of a chance of carrying diseases or parasites that infect humans (on the account of not having encountered other humans). After farming? All bets are off.
Maybe less of a chance, still deadly.
(That is, if you don't have undetected Helminthiase or some other disease)