![]() Fact 2: Populations eating a remarkably wide range of traditional diets generally don’t suffer from these chronic diseases.Fact 1: Populations that eat a so-called Western diet-generally defined as a diet consisting of lots of processed foods and meat, lots of added fat and sugar, lots of refined grains, lots of everything except vegetables, fruits, and whole grains-invariably suffer from high rates of the so-called Western diseases: obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.And, even more important for our purposes, these facts are sturdy enough that we can build a sensible diet upon them. ![]() All the contending parties in the nutrition wars agree on them. ![]()
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