But much the same holds true for more mixed traditional diets. These diets run the gamut from ones very high in fat (the Inuit in Greenland subsist largely on seal blubber) to ones high in carbohydrate (Central American Indians subsist largely on maize and beans) to ones very high in protein (Masai tribesmen in Africa subsist chiefly on cattle blood, meat, and milk), to cite three rather extreme examples. Fact 2: Populations eating a remarkably wide range of traditional diets generally don’t suffer from these chronic diseases.Fact 1: Populations that eat a so-called Western diet-generally defined as a diet consisting of lots of processed foods and meat, lots of added fat and sugar, lots of refined grains, lots of everything except vegetables, fruits, and whole grains-invariably suffer from high rates of the so-called Western diseases: obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.And, even more important for our purposes, these facts are sturdy enough that we can build a sensible diet upon them. All the contending parties in the nutrition wars agree on them. There are basically two important things you need to know about the links between diet and health, two facts that are not in dispute.Eat local, healthy food that your great-grandmother would have recognized.īuy from your local farmer's market.
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