Kenya’s Turkana people genetically adapted to live in harsh environment, study suggests

[Zak12]

West Africans are built to eat carbs.

Was referring to East Africans.

 

[Riftvalley]

The reason I'm skeptical is due to lack of data + seeing other neighboring African countries not having such major issues.

There was a small study in Hargeysa recently;

https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/16329/1/Prevalence-and-Determinants-of-Diabetes-among-Adult-Patients-Attending-Hargeisa-Group-Hospital-of-Somalia-A-Hospital-Based-Cross-Sectional-Study.pdf

I suspect same situation is replicate across the country. If you’ve see videos of somali men in Somalia on television you will notice a lot of pre diabetes bodies (skinny with no muscle, which will later mould into skinny fat diabetic). And most of these issues are not genetic but diet related. What this study is showing is that we are potentially at more risk due to our diet and history of recent illnesses urbanisation from a nomadic background.

There might be an obesity problem among get women in major cities in Somalia which is again heavily linked to diabetes:

Prevalence and Predictors of Overweight and Obesity among Somalis in Norway and Somaliland: A Comparative Study - PMC

The knowledge about the health status of Somalis in Norway and Somaliland is limited. This paper reports the results of a comparative study on the prevalence and predictors of overweight/obesity among Somalis in Norway and Somaliland. We conducted ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov