English B1A CLASS PACK - Bakersfield College

In Defense of Foodp. 85-101GROUP 11. In Kerin O’Dea’s 1982 study of Aborigines who returned to the bush from civilization, whatdiseases did all of the subjects have (85)?2. What is metabolic syndrome, and what diseases is it associated with (85)?3. What did the Aborigines eat while on the coast? What about inland (86)?4. After seven weeks of living in the bush, what measurable health benefits did the Aborigines show(87)?GROUP 25. According to Walter C. Willet, can the worst effects of the Western diet be avoided or reversedwithout leaving civilization (see footnote, p. 88)?6. How many Americans are overweight or obese (89)?7. How many Americans have metabolic syndrome (89)?8. How many Americans have prediabetes (89)?GROUP 39. Instead of a reductionist study, Pollan suggests that we study the Western diet as a whole becausepeople “who eat the way we do in the West today suffer substantially higher rates” of whatdiseases (90)?10. Several studies of native populations all over the world demonstrated a surprising lack of whatWestern diseases (91)?52