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Important article to read for health

eveedance
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There are lots of "debunkers" on the forum, which is good. I like to collect competing evidence/commentaries as well, so if you could please post those with links to the articles that would be great thanks!0
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Rani fancy dank0
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sarankasukumar125 wrote: »Rani fancy dank
wut0 -
A diet of grain-free whole foods with carbohydrate from cellular tubers, leaves, and fruits may produce a gastrointestinal microbiota consistent with our evolutionary condition, potentially explaining the exceptional macronutrient-independent metabolic health of non-Westernized populations, and the apparent efficacy of the modern “Paleolithic” diet on satiety and metabolism.0
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I just skimmed as I don't have time to dive in right now. I gotta ask..was there a study? I didn't see one.0
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A diet of grain-free whole foods with carbohydrate from cellular tubers, leaves, and fruits may produce a gastrointestinal microbiota consistent with our evolutionary condition, potentially explaining the exceptional macronutrient-independent metabolic health of non-Westernized populations, and the apparent efficacy of the modern “Paleolithic” diet on satiety and metabolism.
Non-Westernized diets like Japanese and Mediterranean?0 -
herrspoons wrote: »
Nope. It's a review paper.
ah, I figured.
So a review paper with a "May Cause" conclusion...
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Mediterranean is western of course.
He studies the people of Kitava, an island of Papua New Guinea.0 -
It's from 2012. Has his "proposal" actually gone anywhere?0
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Oh, and LOLOLOLOL at his conclusion. There are, apparently, no overweight/obese people that he looked at. And I wonder how abundant their food sources are and what their activity levels are.0
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