Michael Pollan's book 'In Defense of Food' describes a group of Australian Aborigines who had developed metabolic syndrome—a cluster of conditions including diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and high blood pressure—after relocating to settlements and consuming a Western diet consisting of flour, sugar, rice, carbonated drinks, alcoholic beverages, powdered milk, cheap fatty meat, potatoes, and onions.

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• obesity concept
• diabetes concept
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• sugar concept
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• metabolic syndrome concept
• rice concept
• high blood pressure concept