Body Fat / Skin
Obesity and overweight are prevalent, epidemic in nature, and considered a global health crisis (Foss & Dyrstad, 2011). The severity and widespread propagation of the aforementioned conditions increases the risk of coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, and stroke. Moreover, obesity contributes to approximately 120,000 preventable deaths every year in…
In my last post, I noted that modern Western diets, including macronutrient ratios and macronutrient quality, were substantially different than the hominin diets 10,000 years ago (Ilich, Kelly, Kim, & Spicer, 2014). Of particular interest is the stratification of then and now between daily carbohydrate consumption and carbohydrate quality. In the following sections, I would…
Modern Western diets, including macronutrient ratios and macronutrient quality, are substantially different than the hominin diets 10,000 years ago (Ilich, Kelly, Kim, & Spicer, 2014). Modern diets tend to include over 70% of total energy from refined sugars, refined vegetable oils, processed foods, and alcohol (Ilich et al., 2014). Of particular interest is the shift…