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From: snickers (cache-rtc-ae06.proxy.aol.com)
In Reply to: The Greeks... posted by Portia on March 10, 2005 at 10:48 am:
What you say is absolutely true and the same holds true for the Chinese that Dr. Campbell studied. As people in those countries became more affluent and could afford more meat (and more cars!) their level of health has diminished. There's no way you can compare the people and habits that Ancel Keys studied in the 1950s and 1960s in the Mediterranean and the people and habits T. Colin Campbell studied in China in the 1980s to the people and habits in either of those regions now. In an article about The China Project written about 10 years ago one of the lead researchers, Chen Junshi noted that between 1983 and 1989 "incomes were up and people could afford to eat more meat and fish and use more oil." In that time they saw "a 5% increase in calories from fat that people were eating across China. That's a huge change in such a short time." It was accompanied by a 10% increase in serum cholesterol. But compared to the West, their eating habits were still quite healthful. He went on to say, "We haven't done any further studies since the China Project was completed in 1989, but we know people's habits are changing fast. Meat and eggs are affordable now for more and more people, so they're eating more. They don't really understand that altering their diet could affect their health." Based on the news about the state of the health and weight of the Chinese today, he was right on target. There are still areas in both regions (Asia and the Mediterranean) where the traditional diets are being followed, but more and more they're in the minority in following the traditional diets and in the majority when it comes to the health problems that accompany affluence.
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