The Tsimané are an indigenous people of lowland Bolivia who still remain largely isolated. We’d scoff at their low diet diversity, but their levels of heart disease and type 2 diabetes are among the lowest of any population recorded in the world. This episode is probably a good reminder that you should stop eating sherbert for breakfast.

Inspiration for this week’s episode comes from the following article:

Nutrition transition in 2 lowland Bolivian subsistence populations (2018)
Thomas S Kraft, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C Trumble, Melanie Martin, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven.

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, nqy250, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqy250

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