As I've noted a number of times (with links to FAO data), in Asian countries that still largely
consume a traditional diet, people eat 10 - 20 times as much rice as North Americans or Europeans do.
As discussed later, this has been the primary finding of more sophisticated contemporary studies using DNA sequencing of stool samples, that is, there is more bacterial diversity in
those consuming traditional diets.
Not exact matches
However, do a quick research project on the rate of these diseases in populations which
consume a more
traditional diet (aka natural, low carb) vs the staggering numbers in Western populations.
Read more about
Traditional, Nutrient Dense and Organic
Diets as well as the importance of
consuming unrefined food.
Traditional cultures
consumed much higher amounts of K2 then we do today because their
diets included more organ meats and naturally fermented foods.
Fatty acid composition of human milk from South African black mothers
consuming a
traditional maize
diet.
The team found that the pair probably
consumed about 35 human victims, with one of the animals devouring the lion's share, while the other stuck to a more
traditional diet.
When we
consume fat - soluble substances that aren't a
traditional part of the human
diet, they can impair lymph flow and cause lymphatic congestion.
No matter what the particulars of the
diet — whether in the frozen north, the Alpine highlands or the tropical South Seas —
traditional peoples
consumed plentiful amounts of vitamins A, D and what Dr. Price referred to as Activator X — now determined to be vitamin K2 — from seafood, organ meats and the fat of grass - fed animals.
Seems to me the fact that various pre-industrial peoples
consumed almost entirely «anabolic»
diets and had vibrant health speaks to your comment about the body's ability to maintain proper pH on
traditional foods.
On the subject of raw eggs, Sally Fallon writes ``... it is fine to
consume plenty of raw egg yolks, a custom found in many
traditional diets, but consumption of raw egg whites on a regular basis can lead to digestive problems.
Meanwhile, Chinese and Japanese migrants to the US show similar rates of these conditions when
consuming a typical Western
diet but not when eating their
traditional diets.
Many other nutrients found in plants also help with Arsenic elimination / «detox», including vitamin C, selenium and sulphur... you know, things commonly found in foods that tend to be
consumed with white rice in
traditional Asian
diets, like greens, beans / lentils, mushrooms, onions, garlic, peppers and tomatoes.
The other was that populations that
consumed lots of rice (like those Asian populations that still
consume a largely
traditional diet) had better overall health.
This is in contrast to the
traditional recommendations of «eat small meals throughout the day» because many people
consume more calories during these small meals than is intended, and fewer anti-inflammatory foods in the
diet.
The study: No evidence of insulin resistance in normal weight vegetarian (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-005-0563-x) compares the level of vegetarians to non-vegetarian who
consume a
traditional «western
diet».
This has also been shown in Asian countries, where those who
consumed a
traditional (non-SAD, low animal products)
diet with much higher rice consumption, 10 - 20 as much as American
consume, also had the lowest incidence of cancer.
The amount of gluten now
consumed is much higher than any
traditional grain
diet over the past thousands of years.
This is consistent with Weston Price's emphasis on the extraordinary skeletal and dental health and the beautiful, broad, well developed faces of individuals
consuming their
traditional ancestral
diets, free of refined foods and rich in fat - soluble vitamins.
When
consuming their
traditional high glycemic index staples, rural Chinese and Indians (short - grain white rice), rural Africans (cassava & yam flours), rural New Guineans (sweet potatoes), and Native Americans (corn flour), all have extremely low diabetes incidence, so starches alone can not account for the higher incidence of diabetes among the same people when adopting Western
diets.
There are populations who
consume low - fat, high carbohydrate
traditional diets, like the Tarahumara tribe of Mexico or Papuan highlanders, who have high - normal fasting triglycerides but negligible risk for CVD or metabolic diseae.
Traditional diets had higher levels ofthe essential fatty acids Omega 3 than we
consume today, and the ratio used to be 1 part Omega 3 to about two parts Omega 6.
We know that
traditional diets developed over thousands of years by groups all over the world that had successfully fine - tuned nutritional strategies that allowed them to pass radiant health from generation to generation
consumed diets rich in foods like liver, other organ meats, cream and butter, shellfish, or insects, that provided a rich assembly of fat - soluble nutrients that included plenty of vitamin A.
So bring on those heart healthy omega - 3 fats, but let's all
consume them as part of a
diet that also includes meat, liver and eggs as wisely demonstrated by chronic disease free
Traditional Societies that exhibited vibrant health, easy fertility, straight / cavity free teeth and healthy children generation after generation.
Spirulina, a type of freshwater blue - green algae that has been
consumed as part of
traditional diets throughout the world for centuries, is incredibly rich in vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other micronutrients.
But
consuming starchy vegetables is a necessity on this
diet because, even though it is low - carb, you have to have some carbs in your
diet to survive and thrive; and your carb source can't be grains — even though grains are a staple in the
traditional Western
diet.
Something called «Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth», also known as SIBO, tends to fly under the radar, but can be especially problematic in athletes who have been
consuming a
traditional high carbohydrate
diet, because bacteria in the gut tend to feed quite readily upon sugars and starches.
It's a natural and healthy ingredient that has been
consumed for centuries and was a valued part of
traditional diets due to its nutrient density.
Traditional hunter - gatherer populations
consuming an ancestral paleolithic
diet had the most optimal dietary omega - 6 to omega - 3 ratio, of 1:1, and were virtually free from the chronic and degenerative diseases of modernity (20, 21, 22).
This study took 20 Hawaiians who were
consuming a high carb standard American
diet and put on a
diet for 21 days that was the
traditional pre western Hawaiian
diet.
The value of legumes and grains in the human
diet is validated by people of the Blue Zones — the longest lived, healthiest populations in the world — all of whom
consume legumes and grains as part of their
traditional fare.
In
traditional diets, they
consumed so many more enzymes than we get in our modern
diet (through fermented foods and drinks, raw meat and dairy, etc).