"Malcolm" 

> Western people don't need to take any exercise, and have 
> virtually unlimited
> access to high calorie food. You don't need to look any further 
> to find the
> explanation for obesity.


JE:-
Evolutionary theory has a lot to offer
medicine. Obesity is not mostly caused by a lack 
of exercise it is mostly caused by eating, almost
exclusively, _simple_ carbohydrates (non
wholegrain foods, refined sugars, alcohols,
i.e. most modern foods). These foods represent 
one of the biggest health threats humans 
have ever had to cope with.  We are not adapted 
to an intake of just simple carbohydrates. Even 
a teaspoon of sugar overtaxes the pancrease
because of sugar _concentration_. Hypoglycaemia
(blood sugar loss)
and diabetes are epidemics in the west. It
appears the more wealth we create the worse
becomes the diet because the less we seem 
to care about our own basic biological 
adaptation.

The misuse of animal products to use
up the bodies store of carbohydrates until
ketone toxicity sets in to reduce weight is madness. 
What hope do we have to get our "genetic engineering"
right when we cannot even get our diet correct?
We pretend we are omnivorous when we are basically
vegetarian (dentition, intestine length and
vitamin c dependency). Feed a cow a sheep's heads
and you get a prion BSE because these animals are 
not evolved to cope with animal products in their
diets. For similar reasons we take unnecessary risks
eating any animals that are closely related to
ourselves. 

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

PO Box 266
Church Pt
NSW 2105
Australia

edser{at}tpg.com.au
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