Cannibalism Study Finds People Are Not That Nutritious - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE][B]Note to the prehistoric party planner: One dead mammoth can feed 25 hungry Neanderthals for a month, but cannibalizing a human would provide the crowd with only a third of a day’s calories.[/B] Essentially, you’re a walking lunch. A new look at the nutritional value of human flesh shows that, compared with other Paleolithic prey animals, humans weren’t especially packed with calories for their size. “When you compare us to other animals, we’re not very nutritional at all,” says study author James Cole of the University of Brighton, who published his work Thursday in Scientific Reports.[/QUOTE] [URL]http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/human-cannibalism-nutrition-archaeology-science/[/URL]

Isn't there some disease that cannibals can get from it too? Not even human-human diseases, from specifically cannibalizing.

[QUOTE=J!NX;52083782]Isn't there some disease that cannibals can get from it too? Not even human-human diseases, from specifically cannibalizing.[/QUOTE] this? [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)[/url]

[QUOTE=J!NX;52083782]Isn't there some disease that cannibals can get from it too? Not even human-human diseases, from specifically cannibalizing.[/QUOTE] How does that make any sense. Going mentally fucky is one thing, but you cannot get a disease from something that isn't there

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[QUOTE=J!NX;52083782]Isn't there some disease that cannibals can get from it too? Not even human-human diseases, from specifically cannibalizing.[/QUOTE]iirc neurodegenerative diseases like CJD are transmissible through cannibalism (but not otherwise), specifically eating the brain, especially since prions are quite resistant to heat.

[QUOTE=J!NX;52083782]Isn't there some disease that cannibals can get from it too? Not even human-human diseases, from specifically cannibalizing.[/QUOTE] There is a few. They come from eating the nerves and muscle tissue of people. None of them are nice to have and don't really have cures since, well, why would they research a cure for something people just shouldn't get in the first place?

“When you compare us to other animals, we’re not very nutritional at all,” says man living in fear of cannibals

[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;52083917]There is a few. They come from eating the nerves and muscle tissue of people. None of them are nice to have and don't really have cures since, well, why would they research a cure for something people just shouldn't get in the first place?[/QUOTE] It's not just that - it's pretty hard to treat prion diseases (and others caused by misfolded proteins) because it's pretty hard to reverse the misfolding or halt the cascade of misfolding that occurs in these diseases. It should also be noted that cannibalism isn't [I]causing[/I] diseases such as kuru or CJD, it's just that the prions can be transmitted through cannibalism (as well as through inheritance), so a culture of systemic cannibalism is going to allow for the disease to establish itself rather readily in a community. In the case of kuru, this is exactly what happened, the disease - which is incredibly localised - established itself within a particular ethnic community in Papua New Guinea (the Fore) due to systemic ritualistic cannibalism of the dead among the group. CJD is more widespread from a geographic standpoint, but the disease is quite rare, as most cultures don't practice cannibalism like the Fore do, and it isn't something that's going to be a particular concern among cannibals.

[QUOTE=DatHarry;52083786]this? [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)[/url][/QUOTE] [quote]Deceased family members were traditionally cooked and eaten, which was thought to help free the spirit of the dead.[3] Females and children usually consumed the brain, the organ in which infectious prions were most concentrated, thus allowing for transmission of kuru. The disease was therefore more prevalent among women and children.[/quote] :disgust:

-forgot a rule-

Although to be fair, in extreme circumstances cannibalism is what has saved some people (like the survivors of the Essex wreck).

[QUOTE=J!NX;52083782]Isn't there some disease that cannibals can get from it too? Not even human-human diseases, from specifically cannibalizing.[/QUOTE] You will start to suffer from various symptoms if you subsist on humans for too long, but it's not down to one disease. What you're looking at is biomagnification, a phenomenon where for each link in the food chain you go up, contaminants and various other toxic chemicals and the like gets concentrated. It's why fish are so high in mercury, they eat loads of other, smaller organisms that contain a comparatively tiny amount individually, but because they eat so many of them it ends up becoming quite a bit. So in short, eating another human means you're also eating and absorbing a fair chunk of all the nasty shit they ever accumulated throughout their lives. Edit: There's also the small matter that somewhat ironically humans don't contain all of the various minerals, vitamins and other essentials that we need to survive, so you'll be looking at malnutrition pretty quickly as well.

Huh, I've always though people were very nutricious because of our diverse diet, what do you know.

I want some of that juicy Shaq meat

Interestingly, [url="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-4887.1963.tb04723.x/abstract"]human livers contain ~1,000 I.U. of vitamin A per gram[/url] and consumption could possibly cause hypervitaminosis A.

[QUOTE=Uberpro;52084009]:disgust:[/QUOTE] I don't know it's not that gross when you realize it is just their culture and it's not like they are doing it just for fun or something.

[QUOTE=Ctrl;52084523]Huh, I've always though people were very nutricious because of our diverse diet, what do you know.[/QUOTE] These days people only have diversity in their diet due to different flavors of doritos and soda

[QUOTE=Paramud;52084758]These days people only have diversity in their diet due to different flavors of doritos and soda[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure I'm diabeetus flavoured, then. :dewritos:

[QUOTE=Paramud;52084758]These days people only have diversity in their diet due to different flavors of doritos and soda[/QUOTE] Solution: don't eat the fatass.

[QUOTE=matt000024;52084611]I don't know it's not that gross when you realize it is just their culture and it's not like they are doing it just for fun or something.[/QUOTE] I don't care where you're from. Eating your dead family members isn't cool.

[QUOTE=_Kent_;52084791]Solution: don't eat the fatass.[/QUOTE] Screw you, I bet I'm delicious. Just not nutritious. I am the deep fried butter of people. [video=youtube;rUJjW3I65e4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUJjW3I65e4[/video]

[QUOTE=Fausty;52083790]How does that make any sense. Going mentally fucky is one thing, but you cannot get a disease from something that isn't there[/QUOTE] Except you can? [editline]10th April 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=bdd458;52084365]Although to be fair, in extreme circumstances cannibalism is what has saved some people (like the survivors of the Essex wreck).[/QUOTE] I'm not sure why this is being dumb'd

Wow. We're useless even as nourishment.

[QUOTE=matt000024;52084611]I don't know it's not that gross when you realize it is just their culture and it's not like they are doing it just for fun or something.[/QUOTE] Nah, I'm gunna go ahead and think it's gross. Especially since, according to wikipedia, it resulted in over a thousand deaths in the tribe. It also seems like they've dropped the practice entirely since then.

[QUOTE=Dirty_Ape;52084801]I don't care where you're from. Eating your dead family members isn't cool.[/QUOTE] if you grew up surrounded by people who ate their family members after passing as a form of ritual, the concept of "hey this isn't cool" would never come to you

[QUOTE=snookypookums;52084803]Screw you, I bet I'm delicious. Just not nutritious. I am the deep fried butter of people. [video=youtube;rUJjW3I65e4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUJjW3I65e4[/video][/QUOTE] It makes me sad seeing that kid eat it

Nice try vegans. You aren't gonna fool me that easily.

[QUOTE=DatHarry;52083786]this? [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)[/url][/QUOTE] that is very very endemic to a very very isolated place [editline]10th April 2017[/editline] seriously eat my brains anytime worst thing that could happen is you getting dumber

[QUOTE=FingerSpazem;52085216]Nah, I'm gunna go ahead and think it's gross. Especially since, according to wikipedia, it resulted in over a thousand deaths in the tribe. It also seems like they've dropped the practice entirely since then.[/QUOTE] To someone in a modern nice country it seems gross (I personally find it gross myself), but a body is just a body when it is dead. Seeing how in their society everyone is accepting of it I don't see how it is terribly wrong. The deaths part is a lot like eating raw meat in a Western country. Yeah it'll make you sick and seems gross, but it isn't that bad unless the culture actually learns that it can cause deaths and disease. Also as a reminder, probably everyone here descended from a cannibal of some sort.