The Western diet has nearly killed our ancestral microbiome
So in Northern China, most food is- raw food is rarely eaten unless it has a thick / peelable skin
- mostly veggies are cooked in oil
- starch heavy (flour for dumplings or baked goods, and rice)
- spice heavy (chili, Szechuan peppercorn)
- sodium heavy (soy, bean pastes, and preserved vegetables)
- lots of odd ingredients from a western point of view (mushrooms, fermented beans)
- no set "breakfast" foods vs "supper" foods per se; more like "banquet" foods vs . "Everyday"I've been told from my Chinese friends they find our penchant for salads and raw food to be barbaric.  Evolved people eat cooked food, or so the saying goes.I can next talk about India, Pakistan, Bangkadesh and its varied regional diet...My point is that there are a couple billion people that articles like these completely ignore and treat as if these people are martians...