


He points out that if diabetes were an infectious disease, “the newspapers, the country as a whole, would be demanding answers. We’re in the midst of an epidemic, and few people are equipped to carry out the extensive digging and compiling Taubes has done. The author does well to steer clear of dogma and recognizes that he’s presenting others’ often inconclusive research as well as his own “unscientific” observations. processed or preserved food, salty and sugary things, and altogether unnatural food-like stuff, it takes not more than a decade or so before the same cluster of diseases pops up. In every case, studies show that when people begin to eat the way Westerners do, i.e. Fortunately - or unfortunately - numerous clusters of societies, populations native to Arizona (the Pima tribe), Africa and New Zealand, were “westernized” relatively recently and scientists have studied the results.
