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The Center for American Progress reports:
African Americans, a group plagued by significantly high rates of obesity, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, and other physical ailments. A recent study suggests the answer may lie in the diets of their counterparts across the Atlantic Ocean in the rural parts of the Motherland.
In a study conducted at the University of Pittsburgh, 20 African Americans and 20 South Africans switched diets for two weeks. In this time, the Africans consumed traditional American food--meat and cheese high in fat content--while African Americans took on a traditional African diet--high in fiber and low in fat, with plenty of vegetables, beans, and cornmeal, with little meat.
After the exchange, researchers performed colonoscopies on both groups and found that those in the African diet group increased the production of butyrate, a fatty acid proven to protect against colon cancer. Members of the American diet group, on the other hand, developed changes in their gut that scientists say precede the development of cancerous cells.
[...]"we used biomarkers and looked at the proliferation rate that has been tied to cancer," Dr. Stephen J. O'Keefe, the lead researcher, told ThinkProgress. "We were astounded by the gravity and the magnitude of the changes [which] happened within two weeks."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 17 2015, @06:12PM
My generation was taught to eat a little of everything - to eat in moderation.
Saying "a little of everything" and "eat in moderation" is useless to the ignorant people who need better diet advice. The rest of us who know what you actually wish to mean don't need such advice.
How well would literally a little of everything actually work today? All depends on what you start with doesn't it? A little serving each of M&Ms, Cheetos, Lays, Doritos, Coca Cola, Mountain Dew, deep fried Mars Bars, cotton candy, cake with cake frosting, cookies, doughnuts, sugar laden cereals, fruit juices, milkshake, Cheez Whiz, Velveeta, Jell-O, popcorn, margarine, a little serving each of the hundreds of different candies and "chocolates" out there, jams/jelly, french fries, etc.
You might kill yourself before you even complete the full list of very unhealthy foods and started into the list of slightly less unhealthy foods like burgers, hotdogs and pizza ;).
And what's moderation? A big spoonful of trans-fat laden margarine a day instead of a bowl? Or a spoonful of margarine a year?
Perhaps starting here might be more useful: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-plate/ [harvard.edu]
May not be the best but it won't kill you as fast as one of those junk/fad diets.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 17 2015, @06:33PM
I'm laughing my ass off - but you're probably right. How many high school grads today even know what the "food pyramid" is?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 17 2015, @08:53PM
I don't know, but they should know it's a piece of garbage.