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Do the people who introduced their culinary habits to the islanders also suffer from this same level of obesity? I couldn't see that in the abstract.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
Do the people who introduced their culinary habits to the islanders also suffer from this same level of obesity? I couldn't see that in the abstract.
- peterashford 2y agoThey don't - not to the same degree. Most imports to the southern pacfic islands come from NZ and Australia. Both countries have their own obesity issues, but not to the same rate as in the islands.
- sshine 2y agoNo, I don't think so. Orthogonally, the USA has a fentanyl epidemic, and neither China or India (who export fentanyl) nor Mexico (where it flows into the USA) have a fentanyl problem.
- robertlagrant 2y agoThat's true, but that's not saying that Mexican culture is going to the US and making people die from drugs. If it were Mexican culture to take fentanyl and Mexicans weren't dying from it, we'd probably look outside of fentanyl to explain the US deaths from that hypothetical culture.
- WanderingLurker 2y agoAnecdotally and from my own experience living in a couple of small towns in Mexico. Cartels don’t allow the sale of fentanyl in their hometowns because they know what it does to a population.