Scientists seem to have concluded this by studying the composition of breast milk from women in regions where the first humans are likely to have emerged. They are even suggesting that modern day guidelines for infant formula based on Western dietary recommendations, need re-evaluation.
Ph.D. student Remko Kuipers in Tanzania’s Chole Beach together with some locals. Remko collected samples of breast milk from Tanzanian women and analyzed it in the Netherlands.
Muskiet is a scientist in the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Netherlands’ University Medical Center Groningen. He and his colleagues conducted chemical analysis of milk obtained from 20 mothers living on the island of Chole, Tanzania.
Chole’s inhabitants eat large amounts of coconut, fish, vegetables, fruits and occasional flying fox meat. Hence, the mothers milk contained high amounts of lauric acid, an unsaturated fatty acid often derived from coconuts.
The other tribes studied eat foods often associated with Western diets, such as processed carbohydrates, red meat and corn oil. These had fewer fish oil fatty acids and high concentrations of linoleic acid, a polyunsaturated fatty acid that is a component of many vegetable oils. Infant formula guidelines in most countries more closely match the inland milk, but Muskiet and his team believe the Chole milk and diet are likely more ideal.
Thus, these carbohydrates, sugars, salts and oils of the western diets are in essence a deviation from the natural evolution of human beings and hence cause varied diseases. That does not mean you should start living cave lives, but it does call for you to have a smarter, healthier choice of foods and definitely the everyday exercise.
Source: Discovery
