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The article covers this, and sugar is not the root cause: > A Tanzanian hunter-gatherer society called the Hadza get about 15 percent of their calories from ho
by EMM_386 5y ago
The article covers this, and sugar is not the root cause:
> A Tanzanian hunter-gatherer society called the Hadza get about 15 percent of their calories from honey. Combined with all the sugar they get from eating fruit, they end up eating about the same amount of sugar as Americans do. Despite this, the Hadza do not exhibit obesity.
- readonthegoapp 5y agoyou have a lot of confidence in a theory that sugar is not a main or the root cause of obesity, all based on...a single tribe? that eats unprocessed sugar? including that found in fruits??
- EMM_386 5y agoThe article clearly explains all of this. It's more than one tribe. Part II is equally interesting. https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/11/a-chemical-hunger-part-ii-current-theories-of-obesity-are-inadequate/ https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/11/a-chemical-hunger-p... > We can further cite the fact that many cultures, such as the Hadza of Tanzania, the Mbuti of the Congo, and the Kuna of Panama all eat diets relatively high in sugar (sometimes as high at 80%), and yet none of these cultures have noticeable rates of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, etc.
- readonthegoapp 5y agook, _multiple_ tribes, that -- unlike us westernized/modernized/uncivilized people -- eat _un_processed sugars, _un_processed foods, etc. i'm all for looking at populations of folks and then looking at the effects of their new diets -- whether they moved to the food, or the food moved to them -- but i don't even see the beginnings of an apples-to-apples comparison here. to me, a layman, i don't see Nutrasweet and sugar and honey and cookies and apples to be all the same in terms of the effects of their 'sugars' on the body. i must be missing something.