Food choices Quote by Tim Noakes

“Genes can be activated or turned off by factors in the environment. In the Cree population of northwestern Ontario, for example, diabetes is found…

— Gabor Maté

“T2DM is simply the result of chronic excessive carbohydrate consumption beyond the genetically predetermined maximum carbohydrate handling capacity of the insulin-glucagon hormonal system.”

— Tim Noakes

“Australian aborigines, surprisingly, turn out to be a race unlike any other. They and their relatives in New Guinea have no trace in their…

— Nicholas Wade

The differences between Indigenous and not Indigenous Australians can be easily attributed not to differences in their genes but to differences in the conditions…

— Michael Marmot

If Australia is The Lucky Country, the Aborigines must be the unluckiest people in the world.

— Frank Hardy

“The situation with regard to insulin is particularly clear. In many parts of the world diabetic children still die from lack of this hormone.…

— Charles Herbert Best

Aborigines are not just the oldest race in Australia; they are the oldest race on the planet. They look like dinosaurs.

— Marina Abramovic

“These gene maps powerfully suggest that that the Beringian Standstill hypothesis is correct: All Native Americans, north and south, have versions of genes relating…

— Adam Rutherford

“The idea of specific populations predisposed to obesity is encapsulated in a notion now known as the thrifty gene—technically, the thrifty-genotype hypothesis—that is now…

— Gary Taubes

Rarely, Type 2 diabetes develops without any readily identifiable predisposing factor. But in the great majority of cases, it is brought on by lifestyle…

— David Perlmutter

My family came to Australia on the First Fleet. My family’s been in that country for a long time, over 100 years. If your…

— Iggy Azalea

“the more we distance ourselves from ancestral diets, the more we are likely to be eating a health-robbing diet that is far removed from…

— Deborah Kesten