> My point is that there are a couple billion people that articles like these completely ignore and treat as if these people are martians... Developing a compr

> My point is that there are a couple billion people that articles like these completely ignore and treat as if these people are martians... Developing a comprehensive and objective view of human digestion wasn't the goal of the research. The primary goal was to disparage the so called modern "western diet," and glorify that of a traditional Exotic Other by contrast. Facts were then selectively chosen to support the pre-ordained conclusion. For that purpose, only one non-western analysis is necessary, and in particular they must stringently avoid analysis of non-western places that are also heavily into fried food. The author also goes on about how terrible antibiotics are, the damage they've done to the western microbiome. They further lament with little comment how antibiotics are now appearing with increasing frequency in the remaining environments where Exotic Others still live in a traditional fashion. They fail to note that this is because in the absence of antibiotics, people -- especially children -- tend to die horribly painful deaths of sepsis at a vastly increased rate, and even exotic others tend to prefer not to die like that when taking $2 worth of pills can prevent it.