Our local newspaper published a Los Angeles Times article on Wednesday, July 15, entitled "evolution holds health lessons."
It referenced a book written by Dr. William Meller, a board certified internist who runs a medical practice in Santa Barbara.  His book is titled, "evolution Rx: a practical guide to harnessing our innate capacity for health and healing."  That's quite a mouthful for book title.

Excerpts from the article:
"... health concerns are best remedied by listening to our bodies more in paying attention to evolutionary clues that explained what we should do and how we should take care of ourselves."

"... but because of the fear of the sun, we absolutely have an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency in osteoporosis.  And maybe even depression and other cancers."

Diet - he advocates low carb instead of low-fat.  Why?  What does this have to do with evolution?  His answer:

"We found places like caves that people lived in for 30 or 40,000 years.  The caves sometimes got sealed off by a landslide, so they were preserved well.  We'd go in and sift through the sand and get a good sense of what they ate.  We'd look at the bones of these people and determine what they ate.  Looking at the evidence and our own psychological makeup, we learned that carbohydrates were extremely rare in human diets.  If you look back, they didn't have grains.  At most, they ate grains two out of the 52 weeks of the year.  It was mostly hunting and gathering.
We ended up without any shut-off mechanism in the body.  So when you eat carbohydrates, you often have a desire for more.  Not true with fats and meats."

Has anyone on the list read the book?
Kath