&gt; My point is that there are a couple billion people that articles like these completely ignore and treat as if these people are martians...<p>Developing a comprehensive and objective view of human digestion wasn&#x27;t the goal of the research. The primary goal was to disparage the so called modern &quot;western diet,&quot; and glorify that of a traditional Exotic Other by contrast. Facts were then selectively chosen to support the pre-ordained conclusion.<p>For that purpose, only one non-western analysis is necessary, and in particular they must stringently avoid analysis of non-western places that are also heavily into fried food.<p>The author also goes on about how terrible antibiotics are, the damage they&#x27;ve done to the western microbiome. They further lament with little comment how antibiotics are now appearing with increasing frequency in the remaining environments where Exotic Others still live in a traditional fashion.<p>They fail to note that this is because in the absence of antibiotics, people -- especially children -- tend to die horribly painful deaths of sepsis at a vastly increased rate, and even exotic others tend to prefer not to die like that when taking $2 worth of pills can prevent it.