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Indigenous people have bodies that tend to over respond to sugar.
Ingest that twinkie with strawberry pop and their glucose level spikes. Their bodies respond by pushing out lots of insulin. Persistently high insulin levels cause fat creation. The end results are fat bodies and diebetes.
Look all over the world and you'll see this response. Consider other groups such as the Pima Indians in Arizona, the Mauris in New Zealand, the native Hawaiian Islanders, the natives in the Marshall Islands, and the Aboriginies in Australia. They are all mostly fat.
The arrival of the industrial junk diet is a fairly recent occurrence. Their bodies have not had enough time to evolve from their previous diets of native foods and roots to modern fast junk food.
I lived on Guam for a brief time in the 80s. At that time, you could get a tasty plate lunch at the Public Market in Agana for something like 5-6 dollars. The plate would include: bbq chicken, bbq beef short rib, pancit (Philippine chow mein noodles), 2 lumpia (Philippine egg rolls), two scoops of red rice and a scoop of macaroni salad.
I lived on Guam for a brief time in the 80s. At that time, you could get a tasty plate lunch at the Public Market in Agana for something like 5-6 dollars. The plate would include: bbq chicken, bbq beef short rib, pancit (Philippine chow mein noodles), 2 lumpia (Philippine egg rolls), two scoops of red rice and a scoop of macaroni salad.
Now wonder why people get fat there?
That's interesting there is so much Filipino food in the mix. Filipinos love grazing on food all day....pancit, lumpia, lechon, etc. When they have get-togethers, which is often as Filipinos are very social-oriented, excessive amounts of foods is one of the requirements.
Spam was always a favorite when I lived there. But I don’t remember there being a lot of fat people. Early 80’s when I was there so I guess things have changed.
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