Search for &quot;evolution&quot; in this article and you will find nothing about the headline topic.  Just a couple token mentions of how things are different now than during most of our evolution--a fancy way of saying &quot;before.&quot;<p>Rather than derailing our evolution, the &quot;Western Diet&quot; <i>is part of</i> our evolution.  Our children&#x27;s hair does not fall out due to malnutrition, and that&#x27;s pretty cool (if you want to see a place where it does, go to Papua, where they do a mostly simple vegetarian diet like the Burkina Faso folks praised in this article).<p>As for the &quot;Western&quot; part of the headline...a diet lower in fibre and higher in protein, fat, and sugar can equally be found in China and Indonesia, which happen to be two of the largest countries in the world, and very much in the East.  So don&#x27;t feel too bad about which hemisphere you were born in.