Not a Doctor just commenting on what is common sense, if sugar is a problem and diabetes is a dietary problem, at the end of the day, it does not seem good common sense to eat carbs, and if one has to eat some depending on their diet, simply ensure you don't eat potatoes, rice, pasta or bread...substitute these for much more fascinating, foods and menus that are even better, and healthier.
Native American populations have a greater percentage of Neanderthal DNA than East Asian populations which, in turn, have more than Europeans. Africans mostly have none.
Very interesting. I found another article on this:
Yes, interesting.
I think most people could have predicted that Pimas on a diet of western food (i.e. mostly highly processed, mostly refined carbs, refined veg oil, and lots of sugar) would be less healthy than Pimas eating their traditional diet (mostly maize, beans, squash, with some meat). However, I suspect that, prior to contact with Europeans, they were not as healthy as their hunter-gatherer contemporaries. I doubt the fibre has anything to do with their state of health - the Inuit didn't eat any fibre and were very healthy on their traditional diet of almost all meat.
High levels of dietary fibre can put a brake on how much food is consumed and can therefore reduce the risk of obesity and therefore type 2 diabetes. Another way of reducing risk of obesity is to live in a cold climate where there is increased need to use food to supply heat. Different ways to achieve similar outcomes.
Well, I haven't eat any fruit or veg for more than 2 years and I don't have scurvy or any other health issues (other than some peripheral neuropathy that is slowly improving). A constant supply of meat is just as good as fruit and veg for preventing health issues related to vitamin c deficiency. The idea that humans need a dietary source of vitamin C is interesting, but meat will supply all the vitamin c a human needs, as long as they are not consuming lots of refined carbs.
I don't think that the idea that humans ancestors could not have survived an African wild animal-only diet due to their low far content is vegan propaganda. The author believes that meat-eating was an essential step in human evolution, as stated in this paper, https://nature.berkeley.edu/miltonlab/pdfs/meateating.pdf (which includes references to insects this time) but that the meat-eating supplemented plant-eating rather than replacing it entirely. The author also states that circumpolar peoples can survive on a virtually animal-only diet but this is because the animals they eat have a high fat content. In other words, it is possible for modern humans to live-off a mostly animal diet if those animals have sufficient fat stores. However, our ancestors on the African savannah would not have been able to do this as the local animals did not contain enough fat. Because humans have a slower gut-transit time than carnivores,they cannot eat enough low-fat animal produce in a day to supply all their calories. I don't think the author mentions 'rabbit starvation' but I would have though that phenomenon would be another problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning
They people around here ate bison, mostly. They did this with just stone-age tools. The bison only had sufficient fat for human consumption for only a short time of the year, specifically females late in the summer. They would hunt during this time and preserve enough to last them through the year, supplemented by occasional hunting. They ate a few berries during the short time they were available. but it wasn't a significant part of their diet. They did that for at least 5 millenium. I can assure you that their digestive system and teeth, as well as mine, are well suited to eat a virtually all meat diet. Humans are omnivores, so can eat both plants and animals. Humans invented tools for processing meat and controlled fire for cooking meat long before modern humans evolved, so cut up and cooked meat is what we've been eating since we came into existence - so eating raw meat with or bare hands and teeth is not really applicable to us in discussing our diet. It's pretty easy to get all the nutrition we need fro eating animals only. It's very difficult to get all the nutrition we need eating only plants. Our ancestors ate plants to prevent starvation and ate as much meat as their environment allowed. I'm really not buying that animals on the savanna did not have enough fat for humans to survive on. I don't think there is good evidence that meat eating supplemented plant food - it's the other way around.
