The introduction of vegetable oil and white flour may contribute to obesity and metabolic issues in the Hadza population.

“what do you think that entails so while eric was visiting the hadza some missionaries rolled up i'm sure with great intentions but the best intentions you know uh are clearly killing the haza they roll up and they're delivering food to the hadza as if the hadza because the thing with the hadza and like so many of these traditional hunter-gatherer groups is that they're because of geopolitical changes they can't hunt the big animals anymore they can't hunt elephants they can't”

“and that's that i recently had eric ed meads on the podcast and we talked about his experiences with the hadza in tanzania who a little bit who lived pretty close to the messiah and i'm actually going to tanzania in in february with eric to spend some time with the hadza but when he was with the hadza he said they were all fit just like the maasai except one woman and he kind of looks at this woman and he goes wow she's pretty obese and people who have heard the podcast will know where the story goes but he kind of saunters over to the chief and says what's going on she's she doesn't look so healthy and the chief kind of shakes his head looks down at the ground and goes oh she's been spending a lot of time with the missionaries in the city”