Ping
Your link is bizarre. Looks like a grad student’s notes or something. Nothing related to the above, as far as I can tell.
That’s a shame. I really wanted to learn more. Can you find a better link?
I’ve seen these studies claiming to show how healthy Indians diets were before the evil white man. They always seem to omit the effects of alcoholism.
When will he be forced to return and rebury the sacred relics (coprolites)? Afterall, the general consensus for years has been that anywhere an indian craps is sacred ground.
Native Americans ate crap before the Europeans came along. They were nomadic hunters and gatherers and they ate whatever they happened to get their hands on. And these glassy-eyed liberal researchers have a nagging tendency to mistake a starvation diet for a healthy diet.
Starving people generally have low rates of diabetes.
That Native Americans have high rates of diabetes and obesity is a cultural thing as most of them are culturally similar to ignorant white people who also have high rates of obesity and diabetes.
To quote Ron White: “You can’t fix stupid.”
Ah...the happy, healthy natives were corrupted by the white man.
Sounds like there is a lot of holes in the thrifty genes theory.
Oh this is utter hooey. The people of the southwest didn’t have much diabetes because they spent a lot of their time starving and walking.
I’ll cite the Pima tribe of Arizona. Typically they lived on a diet of 800 to 1200 calories a day, for many generations. Their livers adapted to a starvation diet and became very efficient. But if you give a modern Pima a typical western diet, they bloat up, become obese and soon develop diabetes.
It is comparable to the lack of resistance that Indians have to alcohol. Europeans and their descent have been drinking alcohol for several thousand years. Plenty of them can suck down a lot before they even get tipsy.
But give an Indian a couple of beers and he is blotto. No resistance to alcohol at all.
Recent research has even shown that in many cases type-1 diabetes can be reversed by subjecting the diabetic to a hospital supervised agony diet of 800 calories a day for over a month.
Same deal, near starvation. It’s good for you.