Study finds: Marinating your steak in black beer before grilling reduc

[r055c0]

We've been cooking meat over fire for hundreds of thousands of years.
Is this really a risk?

What was the average life expectancy back then?

 

[mr_wibble]

What was the average life expectancy back then?

Well from what I've read, if you ignore infant mortality rates, not a whole lot different to what it is now.

This google will give you some background reading, but here's a quote from the first result ~

Ref: http://www.livescience.com/10569-human-lifespans-constant-2-000-years.html

"But the inclusion of infant mortality rates in calculating life expectancy creates the mistaken impression that earlier generations died at a young age; Americans were not dying en masse at the age of 46 in 1907. The fact is that the maximum human lifespan — a concept often confused with "life expectancy" — has remained more or less the same for thousands of years. The idea that our ancestors routinely died young (say, at age 40) has no basis in scientific fact."

cheers,
-kt

 

[r055c0]

I'd never considered the effect of infant mortality on overall lifespan stats, cheers

 

[Liam_snorkel]

We've been cooking meat over fire for hundreds of thousands of years.
Is this really a risk?

no more than anything else, but any excuse to include beer!

 

[wide eyed and legless]

We've been cooking meat over fire for hundreds of thousands of years.
Is this really a risk?

Japanese have considered this a risk for a long time, personally I will stick to my Guinness Pie.