Evolutionary medicine looks to our early human ancestors

Not a half bad stab at a concept I essentially agree with, but it could use some work.

Intermittent starvation was widespread historically. Various religions promote fasting.

We would do well to design more walkable human environments. We used to do that and being active is essential for human health.

But studies suggest a link between diabetes and inflammation, so infection and chemical imbalance in the system seem like better candidates for explanations for it than this text gives.

>This evolutionary perspective counters the "bio-ethnocentrism" of modern medicine—the idea that what is "healthy" or "normal" is largely based on those of northern or western European descent

Unfortunately I just don't see this field making any headway in the current political climate. The current theory is that humans began migrating out of Africa up to 270,000 years ago. That's tens of thousands of generations of adaptation to drastically different environments, with totally different physical and cognitive requirements for survival. Compare an Arctic tundra with a desert or a jungle.

Anything that treads anywhere near an indication that different ethnic groups could be better or worse suited for modern society will implicitly be suppressed. But regardless of the implications this is a very likely possibility. None of the pieces are controversial individually - we are simply not allowed to assemble the puzzle. Most soft sciences are now guarded by a collective politically correct orthodoxy, which is stifling progress. And the difference today is the magnitude of this bias, as activism has over the last couple years become increasingly acceptable in the workplace; but only of a certain leaning...