Amazon Tribe Has Lowest Heart Risk Ever Seen
Researchers said Friday they had found an indigenous Amazonian tribe with the lowest levels of artery hardening — a portender of heart disease — ever observed. And while they hailed the group’s “subsistence lifestyle” as a heart-protecting factor, others cautioned against romanticising the community’s hand-to-mouth existence. Known as the Tsimane, the small forager-farmer community in … Read more