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“Our AIDS ward has become a diabetes ward,” says Schillinger. “It happened in front of my eyes in basically one generation.”

It is no coincidence that virtually all plant foods, in their natural, unrefined state contains fibre. Mother Nature has thus pre-packaged the ‘antidote’ with the ‘poison’. This is how traditional societies may eat diets high in carbohydrate without evidence of obesity or Type 2 Diabetes. The Okinawans, for instance, base their diet upon the sweet potato, and consume an estimated 80% of their calories as carbohydrate. High fibre protects against obesity. Until recently, they were one of the longest-lived peoples on earth. The Kitavans of New Guinea followed a diet estimated to be close to 70% carbohydrate with no evidence of ill health. The one critical difference is that these carbohydrates are all unrefined. The toxicity lies in the processing.