<story><title>How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick </title><url>http://www.npr.org/2011/03/24/132745785/how-western-diets-are-making-the-world-sick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aantix</author><text>Am I the only one that felt like he was holding the Afghanistan people up as a model of health because they lack fat? Their life expectancy is a mere ~44 years (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&amp;#38;met=sp_dyn_le00_in&amp;#38;idim=country:AFG&amp;#38;dl=en&amp;#38;hl=en&amp;#38;q=afghanistan+life+expectancy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&amp;#38;met=sp_dyn_le...&lt;/a&gt;). Neighboring Pakistan is 66 years (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&amp;#38;met=sp_dyn_le00_in&amp;#38;idim=country:PAK&amp;#38;dl=en&amp;#38;hl=en&amp;#38;q=pakistan+life+expectancy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&amp;#38;met=sp_dyn_le...&lt;/a&gt;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>splish</author><text>It was a doctor&apos;s observation. While operating on Afghan soldiers who have limited access to processed foods and a western lifestyle the fat deposits were not found as abundantly internally.&lt;p&gt;It serves as a launching point to describe the point of the article and book.&lt;p&gt;Your premise and statistics are a bit on the hand-waving side, of course no one is calling Afghanistan and Pakistan models of health.&lt;p&gt;And life expectancy is not a proper measure of health either, as per capita (~2006) Afghan people had $29 as the total expenditure on health per capita. The United States? $6,714. We may live longer but we have a lot more help in getting there.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.who.int/countries/afg/en/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.who.int/countries/afg/en/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.who.int/countries/usa/en/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.who.int/countries/usa/en/&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick </title><url>http://www.npr.org/2011/03/24/132745785/how-western-diets-are-making-the-world-sick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aantix</author><text>Am I the only one that felt like he was holding the Afghanistan people up as a model of health because they lack fat? Their life expectancy is a mere ~44 years (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&amp;#38;met=sp_dyn_le00_in&amp;#38;idim=country:AFG&amp;#38;dl=en&amp;#38;hl=en&amp;#38;q=afghanistan+life+expectancy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&amp;#38;met=sp_dyn_le...&lt;/a&gt;). Neighboring Pakistan is 66 years (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&amp;#38;met=sp_dyn_le00_in&amp;#38;idim=country:PAK&amp;#38;dl=en&amp;#38;hl=en&amp;#38;q=pakistan+life+expectancy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&amp;#38;met=sp_dyn_le...&lt;/a&gt;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>Reminds me of a cartoon with a caveman thinking, &quot;Something&apos;s just not right - our air is clean, our water is pure, we all get plenty of exercise, everything we eat is organic and free-range, and yet nobody lives past 30.&quot; :)</text></comment>