What I learned today while reading "On Food and Cooking" by Harold McGee.

What I learned today while reading "On Food and Cooking" by Harold McGee.
We like meat because are tastebuds are trained to like things containing the right enzymes and proteins. We like sweet things because our mothers breast milk is sweet, so sweet things are good. When agricultuer really started in the Middle East 10,000 years ago our diet went from meat and veggies to grain and more grain. So both a less balanced diet with a lack of some important nutrients plus a huge population density increase led to poor heath, more disease and shorter lifespans. Health-wise we were better off being gatherer-hunters.
And artificial hives and the domestication of honey bees dates back to 2500 BC in Egypt.