A new term for me, Gastrocolonialism. Similar problems here in the Philippines but obviously we're much further along in the "modernity" process than West Papua.
My 70 year old doctor was lamenting the fact that younger and younger people are getting bowel cancer (he's a gastro) and said he suspects it may be to do with the food we're eating (think white rice a plenty with every meal, a lack of any vegetables of any colour on a plate, just meat, sugar, carbs, carbs, carbs). I had to hold myself back from jumping up on his desk and screaming "Of course it is, of course it is !". So much diabetes and heart disease too, try getting an appointment to see a cardiologist, they're busy and have loooong queues.
A new term for me, Gastrocolonialism. Similar problems here in the Philippines but obviously we're much further along in the "modernity" process than West Papua.
My 70 year old doctor was lamenting the fact that younger and younger people are getting bowel cancer (he's a gastro) and said he suspects it may be to do with the food we're eating (think white rice a plenty with every meal, a lack of any vegetables of any colour on a plate, just meat, sugar, carbs, carbs, carbs). I had to hold myself back from jumping up on his desk and screaming "Of course it is, of course it is !". So much diabetes and heart disease too, try getting an appointment to see a cardiologist, they're busy and have loooong queues.