ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
None of you have travelled to many Polynesian or Micronesian islands have you? Whether they are Maori, Hawaiian, Samoan, Fijian or tahitian they all pack on the pork when they get older. Men and women both. Now, rather than look at the rates of obesity, look a heart disease in these populations, you'll be surprized. Brenda was the only one to pick up on the genetics....they've always been 'large' people, it isn't a recent thing, like the epidemic that has hit Canada's natives.
Pork & poi make a big boy!Can't tell you how many times I've heard that one.
In any case, the rates for diabetes are also off the charts in Polynesia and that's because the dear folks have problems metabolizing complex sugars and wheat glutens which are not natural to their diets.
In Hawai'i there's a nascent movement to get native Hawai'ians to return to a traditional (and healthier) diet because Western foods are near poison to them.