[ExI] Diet (was: Capitalism, anti capitalism, emotional arousal)

[Stefano Vaj]

On 13 November 2011 11:25, Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "spike" <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>
> >Ja.  Since China went functionally capitalist, Chinese doctors have been
> >seeing a rash of obesity and related diseases, a sharp rise in diabetes,
> >etc, what they refer to as rich man's syndrome because it is their upper
> >class which gets these.  But note that all these things are what kills
> poor
> >people in the US: the puzzling argument is they are too poor to afford a
> >proper diet, so they eat cheap high fat foods.
>
>
> High-fat diets don't lead to obesity, in most people.  High-sugar ones do.
> Any diet that produces spikes of high blood sugar will lead to fat
> synthesis and storage, and contribute to insulin insensitivity.  If
> anything, fat in the diet has a moderating influence on this, partly
> because it triggers satiety hormones that carbohydrates don't.


Indeed.

However, it may be true that damages to health from post-neolithic diets
are actually limited by (involuntary) caloric restriction.

So, as I suggest in *Biopolitica <http://www.biopolitica.it>*, a way to
distinguish rich countries from poor countries may be that in the former
the poor are fatter than the rich, while in the latter is the opposite.

In this respect, China might find itself in transition...

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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