| Description | This is a great article submitted by the user Pepsi. Thanks for sending in this fabulous additon to the Diet Downloads section. I will posting an article shortly on how any user can post documents, links, and news/info submissions. Abstract Correspondence of fat intake with civilisatory diseases (coronary disease andcancer) is usually attributed to adverse effects of animal fat and cholesterol. The 'field studies' hemselves, undertaken to support this theory, failed. As the last environmental changes in human history are agriculture and rise of carbohydrate intake (and concomitant reduction of at and protein consumption), the author thinks that the carbohydrates rather than the animal ats cause our civilisatory diseases.It can be shown that the spread of agriculture from the Near East to the West and North ofEurope with the accompanying differences in time for the adaptation to the new food (thecarbohydrates) easily explains the geographic differences in the frequency of civilisatorydiseases which is highest where (in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Finland) carbohydratescame last. Highest, too, in those areas is the 'polymorphism' of genes which are related tocardiovascular diseases (ACE, apolipoprotein-B etc.) This 'adaptation theory' explains also the hitherto unexplained up and down of cardiovascular disease in the USA by immigration from regions with higher adaptation to carbohydrates. |
