[kennywinker]

Ah yes, we would run across the savannahs, with our flint-tipped spears and hunt the wild HIGH_FRUCTOSE_CORN_SYRUP. At night, we would build a big cooking fire to roast they days catch of fresh MALTODEXTRIN.

I joke. But really, access to high carb, low fibre diets is pretty new. Too new for much natural selection, anyway. We've been eating rice for a long time, but brown rice. I can't find a definite source, but at least in Japan white rice only came into production in the 17th or 18th century.

> According to the New York Times, a 2010 Harvard study showed that people who consume white rice at least five times a week “are almost 20 percent more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than those who eat it less than once a month.”

http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/john-cavanagh-and-robin-bro...