Gary Taubes Interview on Underground Wellness

Excellent interview with Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories. Originally broadcasted by Underground Wellness Radio.

Taubes' Tidbits No.1

In the beginning of chapter 4 of Taubes' book Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes writes about Albert Schweitzer who in 1913 arrives in Lambaréné, Gabon, West Africa. Schweitzer was a missionary surgeon.

"Schweitzer estimated that he saw almost two thousand patients in the first nine months."

After the first nine months he averaged 30-40 patients a day for most of the coming 40 years. 41 years later and a year after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize he encountered the first case of appendicitis. When first arriving to Gabon,

"[he] was astounded to encounter no cases of cancer."

During the years more and more cancer appeared. Schweitzer attributed this to the locals living "more like the whites."