I have been looking for info on the theories of diet induced genetic diseases. The most info I have found so far is a book I have been reading called “A peoples Ecology”. In the book this guy studies South Western Indians diets and he has some theories about how the wild food broke down slower and was a balanced diet and the new processed food is just fast cabs and sugar and leads to diabetes. Has anyone heard about similar studies of this type? Or know any good books on the subject? It is interesting to me and very convincing I was wondering if there is other diseases that could possible be traced back to diet changes in cultures.
heart disease, obesity, just to name a couple. Fast food diets are responsible for the increase in many diseases. we consume much more dairy than we were ever meant to. We shouldn't even be having any dairy. I eat it and drink it because i like it but not because it is necessary like the dairy industry would have us believe. Check out 'the China Study'. It compares the incidence of disease amongst many cultures. The chinese who consume far less dairy have a lower incidence of osteoporosis than the western world.
^Yeah the milk.. A lot of cultures never drank milk until not to long ago. I Found a couple more books on the subject since my first post. I was reading some stuff on diabetes about how people’s diets used to be less carbohydrate and different sugars then now so people are supposablely not meant to digest all the garbage carbs we do now. There is a lot of theories about diabetes mostly coming from our modern junk diets. There is some good studies about Indians because they had a native diet only 150 years ago so they can look back and see the profound difference in a modern diet and increased dieses like diabetes. The subject started to get over my head thought, it gets really technical and medical, a lot of DNA and genetic studies are going on in that field.
