When, however, hunter-gatherers switch to eating modern diets they start getting these diseases at high rates. (Of course this correlation doesn’t prove causation, but still...) Also, anthropological evidence from bones show that populations usually became less healthy after adopting agriculture.
Could you at least point me to somewhere (doesn’t have to be a scientific paper) that supports it?
This analysis does not mention cancer, and cancer’s identification as a “modern disease” is greatly confounded by the fact that civilization has brought both increases in lifespan (revealing cancer; breast cancer rates in women are far higher above age 60 than below) and great increases in the ability to detect cancer (and thus link deaths to it). An excellent discussion of these issues is found in Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Cancer, the Emperor of All Maladies.
You stated that when “hunter-gatherers switch to eating modern diets they start getting these diseases at high rates.” What evidence is there for this claim in particular for cancer?
I am particularly interested in the following:
Could you at least point me to somewhere (doesn’t have to be a scientific paper) that supports it?
A bit of it is here:
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/life-expectancy-hunter-gatherer/#axzz24p8ZdZs
Here is a good place to ask questions of paleo-knowledgeable people: http://paleohacks.com
This analysis does not mention cancer, and cancer’s identification as a “modern disease” is greatly confounded by the fact that civilization has brought both increases in lifespan (revealing cancer; breast cancer rates in women are far higher above age 60 than below) and great increases in the ability to detect cancer (and thus link deaths to it). An excellent discussion of these issues is found in Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Cancer, the Emperor of All Maladies.
You stated that when “hunter-gatherers switch to eating modern diets they start getting these diseases at high rates.” What evidence is there for this claim in particular for cancer?