Princeton and Mpala scholars link obesity and disease to dramatic dietary changes

(Princeton University) The " mismatch hypothesis " argues that our bodies evolved to digest the foods that our ancestors ate, and that human bodies will struggle and largely fail to metabolize a radically new set of foods. This intuitive idea is hard to test directly, but the Turkana, a pastoralist population in remote Kenya, present a natural experiment: genetically homogenous populations whose diets stretch across a lifestyle gradient from relatively " matched " to extremely " mismatched " with their recent evolutionary history.
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