Comments on: Where did we lose the microbes?

By: Cornelius

Cornelius — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 03:55:54 +0000

The theory was for a long time that Africans had low instance of colon cancer because of the high fiber diet they ate in comparison to Europeans and Americans.

Somehow it is the microbes rather than the fiber that accounts for the low instance of colon cancer in Africans?

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 22:29:29 +0000

The so-called scientists are pig ignorant. The Burkina Faso diet is the evolutionary new diet. The Italian diet is not paleo, but it much closer than the African grain diet.

By: Talnik

Talnik — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 14:25:03 +0000

Average lifespan in Burkina Faso is 56 years vs. 83 years in Italy; there are more important issues to address.

By: Bomag

Bomag — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 13:30:16 +0000

When Sonnenburg put these second-generation mice on a fiber-rich diet, their microbes failed to recover.

Maybe in the lab. I suspect that in the world at large, they would eventually recover those microbes.

How about Eskimos? Or Inuit, whatever. They subsist on very little fiber and seem to do okay.