Westside PUFAs
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The study Davefoster posted has Pollack stating their leaders were obese ,the lower social class were not. Something on the islands made them obese. Reasonable questions on intelligence/metabolism of the lower social class can be asked.
From the study: "The proportion of total fat consumed from imported foods was 44.8% for urban populations and only 8.4% for rural populations. Later it was determined that people were 2.2 times more likely to be obese and 2.4 times more likely to be diabetic if they consumed fat from imported foods rather than from traditional fat sources. The most commonly consumed imported foods providing fat were identified as oil, margarine, butter, meat and chicken, tinned meat and tinned fish."
Few Paintings will show fat people for reasons of human vanity ,iPhones have filters for a reason in modern times.
They would have absolutely painted it. This was long before fat shaming was a thing. Obese people were attractions for circus' and the like long ago. It would have been crazy to see it back in Cook's day.
People without type 2 diabetes have excess a dispose tissue.
Yes but the chain link will eventually break which is why you don't see obese people living past 60 usually. The resistance to insulin resistance eventually breaks, and those people are very rare.
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