Could be simultaneously unhealthy for Westerners and fine for East Asians. Per the Lindy effect, we should all be eating foods that we're adapted to eating. Yo

Could be simultaneously unhealthy for Westerners and fine for East Asians. Per the Lindy effect, we should all be eating foods that we're adapted to eating. You are likely adapted to a food if you and your ancestors have been eating it for thousands of years. The longer the better. East Asians seem adapted to rice and its arsenic content. Northern Europeans, maybe not so much. The former has had thousands of years to adapt and select for rice-eating. The latter, again, not nearly as long. Another example: dairy. East Asians can't digest it, Northern Europeans can.