Simple sugars form a greater part of modern diets than formerly, perhaps leading to more cardiovascular disease.
RER is about 0.8 at rest with a modern diet.
Sugar is one of the most insidious ingredients in the modern diet.
By contrast, the modern North American diet is making them sick.
Then there are those modern diets which tell you to ration only fats.
The extremely varied modern diet is only truly possible on a wide scale because of food processing.
The muscle and fat that make up the modern western diet are however poor sources.
In contrast, the modern American diet that has "evolved" over the last 100 years is only about 30 percent derived from plant products.
The traditional staples of beef, milk and animal blood have given way to a modern diet.
In the modern Western diet, however, foods with such properties are relatively easy to acquire.