Many tens of thousands of students from Asia go each year to Europe, North America and Australia to be educated for their chosen professions and over decades this will be many millions. The years they spend being educated are years eating the Western Diet rich in meat, wheat and dairy and what will they chose when they return to their home country? - of course those very things. They will abandon the vegetable, fish, minimal meat and poutlry and rice diets that have kept the masses of t there forebears sustained for centuries.
It is a fact that the young and very young in China are suffering from obesity, something never seen before and diabetes is on the increase too. No doubt the increased affluence of the average Asian is much improved and with it the spectrum of choice. Without doubt the big names like Coca Cola, McDonnell's and Heinz etc. are at hand to offer their wares and with media advertising the way it is, it will all seems so inviting especially to the young - the takeaways and the junk food.
Wheat, meat and dairy pretty much summarises the problem.
This means an imposition of new protein on Asians by way of meat, new protein by way of wheat and the same goes for dairy.
Though certain evolutionary thinking considers the increase in protein in the diet to be one of the major promoters of brain size there is no doubt that the protein nowadays is quite different both in volume, type and in quality to that which helped homo sapiens so much that way.
The volume consumed of animal protein in the West is massive from meat and dairy, reinforced at every opportunity by that in wheat as breakfast cereals, bread, cakes and biscuits most of which contain un-needed amounts of sugar.
That the millions in Asia have flourished on the impoverished volumes that past conditions allowed speaks wonders for that diet ie vegetables, rice, fish and some poultry.
We can even improve on that by 'not cooking' the vegetables.
It's general features are those we should adopt in the West and suggest that Asia returns to them.
