Nomads saw many vast opportunities in the growing their own food. When hunter-gatherers became agriculturalists, they began to eat a humble variety of foods and mainly stuck to one crop to feed their population. This brought new problems upon this newfound lifestyle. One problem large problem was starvation due to crop failure. Another was malnutrition from such a compact diet like Diamond mentioned. We know this because their remains that were found had signs of anemia, iron deficiency, As hunter-gatherers they had a wider variety of foods from various types of berries and meat from animals. Nowadays having a diverse diet with vegetables is healthy because you get all of your nutrients, agriculturalists relied on few food sources leading to malnutrition, anemia, and other diseases. And as Mark Cohen stated: “...they traded quality for
Nomads saw many vast opportunities in the growing their own food. When hunter-gatherers became agriculturalists, they began to eat a humble variety of foods and mainly stuck to one crop to feed their population. This brought new problems upon this newfound lifestyle. One problem large problem was starvation due to crop failure. Another was malnutrition from such a compact diet like Diamond mentioned. We know this because their remains that were found had signs of anemia, iron deficiency, As hunter-gatherers they had a wider variety of foods from various types of berries and meat from animals. Nowadays having a diverse diet with vegetables is healthy because you get all of your nutrients, agriculturalists relied on few food sources leading to malnutrition, anemia, and other diseases. And as Mark Cohen stated: “...they traded quality for