It is also undeniable, note students of Endocrinology 101, that mankind never evolved to eat a diet
high in starches or sugars. ''Grain products and concentrated sugars were essentially absent from
human nutrition until the invention of agriculture,'' Ludwig says, ''which was only 10,000 years
ago.'' This is discussed frequently in the anthropology texts but is mostly absent from the obesity
literature, with the prominent exception of the low-carbohydrate-diet books- Gary taubes
