widely-believed

Updated: July 4, 2025

If their soil had not been extraordinarily fertile, these groups would not have enjoyed superior health and would have conformed to the currently widely-believed notion that before the modern era, people's lives were brutish, unhealthful, and short. What they had in common was that their foods were all were at the extreme positive end of the Health = Nutrition / Calories scale.

Isabel Moser - How and When to Be Your Own Doctor