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A comment on The food we evolved for(a matter of needless disease and death, and avoiding it).

Re:The food we evolved for(a matter of needless disease and ... by pyre on Saturday November 13, 2010 @11:26AM (#1901042) 

  > No signs of cardiovascular disease in a non-western population
Seems to conflict with:

  > The working hypothesis is that a Paleolithic diet (the Paleolithic
  > is the time period 2,000,000-10,000 years BP), basically meat,
  > fish, vegetables, fruit and nuts, has benefits even compared with
  > prudent diets based on whole-grain cereals and low-fat milk.
Isn't Southeast Asia considered 'non-Western'? Hasn't rice been a staple food there for a long time?
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Re:The food we evolved for(a matter of needless disease and ... by jganetsk on Saturday November 13, 2010 @12:33PM (#1901179)
When they said "a non-western population", they didn't mean "all non-western populations".

Rice has been a staple for a long time historically speaking. But on the evolutionary time scale, rice's cultivation is insignificant.

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