- Book: The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease
- Questions our culture’s overwhelming focus on treatment of symptoms instead of prevention
- We’re adapted to put on fat, not lose it. We’re adapted to be physically active, not inactive
Type 2 diabetes a ‘mismatch disease’ for our Paleolithic bodies
When we examine the long list of noninfectious diseases that trouble modern society—which run the gamut in severity from flat feet to acid reflux, anxiety, certain cancers, high blood pressure, obesity and type 2 diabetes—it helps to look back, way back, to the root causes to find answers, said Daniel Lieberman, chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/R-D/Type-2-diabetes-a-mismatch-disease-for-our-Paleolithic-bodies
