>From: "Evelyn McWilliams"
>Subject: Re: new world foods


>Todd Moody wrote:
>Here's an interesting web page on the use of the latter, >by Australian
aborigines:"

>I wonder, then, why Australian aborigines have higher >susceptibility to
diseases like diabetes, etc when >arguably their diet was always high in
sugars and >starches?

>Wouldn't they have adapted metabolically to sugars and >starches?

>Evelyn

Since the Australian Aborigines have only been there for about 40,000 years,
all the usual arguments about "evolving" with a diet would answer this last
question - they haven't had time to adapt.

Tom Barber