Be skeptical about nonconventional food

Innovation is exciting, but when it comes to food, novelty should be approached with caution.

• If various types of diets or nourishments are the result of an evolutionary process, than this means that a culinary innovation is a kind of mutation: it could be a revolutionary breakthrough, but probably it is not. Abandoning the idea of pitched roofs was a great and interesting step for the modern architecture, but often trough horizontal roofs that replaced the pitched ones water could penetrate.
• Soy is an interesting case. Americans consume more than ever many soy products, especially because of the ingenuity of an industry whose purpose is to process and sell the immense amounts of so-called Western diseases- including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension and some types of cancer related to nourishment- which almost invariably begin to appear shortly after a population abandon their traditional diet and lifestyle.
• But what we did not know before O'Dea brought the aborigines in the Savanna (Her experiment was followed by a series of similar experiments that generated similar results achieved by Native Americans and indigenous subjects from Hawaii) is that some of the most harmful effects of Western diets are reversible in a very short time-interval. It seems that, at least to a certain extent, we can set back the change of diet and can eliminate some of the evil done. This has major implications for our health.
• Kerin O'Dea's experiment is remarkable in its simplicity and trough the refuse of the researcher to get lured and attracted into the scientific labyrinth of nourishment. She didn't set her mind (before or after the experiment), to isolate a nutrient from all the food complexity, that could explain the results- no matter if the improved health condition of the group was because of the low-fat diets, lack of refined carbohydrates or reducing the total number calories.
• O'Dea was interested in ample food models even if this approach is limited (such a study does not tell us which element of the Western diet should be adjusted to temper the worst effects), it has the great accomplishment to avoid the chaos of conflicting theories regarding various individual nutrients and turn our attention again, on some fundamental issues on the relationship between diet and health.
• For example: How much are we all aboriginal? If we think that two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, as one quarter of us suffer from metabolic syndrome, that 54 million of people have started to diabetes and the incidence of type 2 diabetes increases by 5% every year since 1990, Going up from 4% to 7.7% of the adult population (that means more than 20 million Americans), the question sounds not at all ridiculous