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wonderful find, wa'il! (how DO you find all these great articles?) That Heidi Bell Gease is also a good journalist.

I'd like to point out that what the native nutritionist said:

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Indian people whose ancestors were hunter/gatherers have an atypical response to carbohydrates, she said, releasing more insulin after eating carbohydrates than someone whose ancestry is better adapted to that diet

is true of us all. We ALL are descended from hunter-gatherers. (We're all descended from "Mitrochondrial Eve," in fact.) Five thousand years of grain eating is not enough to genetically adapt well to it. "Better adapted" maybe (the best-adapted would be people of Chinese descent, who would have some adaptation to rice), but "well-adapted," no--not any of us. And sugar eating is just 200 years old...not enough time for any genetic adaptation to it at all!