The idea of moderation in eating is totally foreign to hunter-gatherers. In fact, Wood, Hill, and Pontzer explain that hunter-gatherer eating habits can be downright gluttonous. Hill recalls some of the enormous meals he observed among the Aché—men eating five pounds of fatty meat each in a sitting, drinking one and a half liters of pure honey, or eating thirty wild oranges similar to the fruit we buy in the grocery store. And it’s not just the Aché. Pontzer adds that the Hadza also drink honey “like a glass of milk.”
