When indigenous populations adopt Western diets and lifestyles, they develop previously unencountered health problems.

“there was a marked discrepancy between their dental health and overall health tuberculosis being an endemic illness at the time with the people who had become westernized often the people of the same genetic stock had become westernized and you could compare indigenous people from one group to an indigenous group that had become assimilated into the culture and was eating processed sugar processed flour and potentially seed oils who knows what else they were eating in the early 1940s but ceos were definitely a part of their diets and their diets were much lower in the animal foods that are rich in fat soluble nutrients which we know are critical for tooth health and overall immunologic health that you could see this massive discrepancy”