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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
It would be better for the plant to be delicious. The health effects of those fruit are irrelevant. Do you think cave men cared about their cholesterol levels? The human body evolved to eat many things. The food didn't evolve to fit human diet...
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Generally speaking, it was beneficial for humans to consume something of high calories in previous times. Therefore, high calorie = extremely healthy due to scarcity of food. Generally speaking, high calorie was also extremely delicious in comparison to lower calorie foods. The current availability and overconsumption of food has definitely negatively affected the human population presently, but that this was extremely advantageous for early peoples.
No, I don't. Firstly, the food they consumed would not have been extremely high in HDL cholesterols if we are talking pre-agricultural era. Besides that, cholesterol levels are a moot point when you have an average life span of 45 years.
We cultivated and artificially selected for a variety of traits that were beneficial for us, but also beneficial for the crop. Therefore, a lot of these traits evolved for our diet, and were allowed the crop to have increased fitness. The more that the trait was selected for increased survival and nutrition [edit: of the crop and the cultivator], the greater likelihood it was a desirable trait and selected for. So yeah, that is exactly what happened. Food evolved to better fit our diet in the agriculture age.