Sentences with phrase «rural populations eat»

And, interestingly, all the tubers and gourds that rural populations eat also provide a very important type of food for those bugs, called resistant starch, something that only the bacteria in our guts can digest and utilize, and it makes them thrive.

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Compared to rural African populations eating traditional plant - based diets, white South Africans and black and white Americans not only have more than 50 times the heart disease, 10 times more colon cancer, and more than 50 times more gallstones and appendicitis, but also more than 25 times the rates of so - called pressure diseases — diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, and hiatal hernia.

The populations who are rural and not yet exposed to it all are still exempt from the new statistics, so the takeaway seems to be eat what nature grows and man hasn't mucked with, especially including oil, which is just a highly caloric waste product left over after the nutrients and fiber has been processed out.