The Maduro Diet Is Better Than Weight Watchers

It works quite well:

In a new sign that Venezuela’s financial crisis is morphing dangerously into a humanitarian one, a new nationwide survey shows that in the past year nearly 75 percent of the population lost an average of 19 pounds for lack of food.

The extreme poor said they dropped even more weight than that.

The 2016 Living Conditions Survey (Encovi, for its name in Spanish), conducted among 6,500 families, also found that as many as 32.5 percent eat only once or twice a day — the figure was 11.3 just a year ago.

In all, 82 percent of the nation’s households live in poverty, the study found…

A whopping 93.3 percent told Encovi researchers that their income was not enough to cover their food needs, which would explain why Venezuelans are replacing red and white meat with vegetables and tubers, mainly potato, and other cheaper options.

This changes a lot biologically, from gene expression, to epigenetic markers attached to DNA, to the distribution of dopamine receptors in the brain, to the usage profiles of different structures in the brain and their relative development.

There is a genetic component, so I would expect races that have historically wiped out other civilizations or species to exhibit a much more pronounced shift toward K than more tropical races that have likely always enjoyed relatively freely available food and/or exposure to diseases that culled the population back uniformly well below the carrying capacity of their environment, without selecting for any particular fitness.

Also, tempering the effect will be the uniformity of the populace. If this started in the US, relatively homogenous rural areas would clearly be far more peaceful than the more diverse city-areas. Where different minority groups begin seeing racial attacks on their own by outsiders of a different race, in-grouping will happen fast, and retaliatory violence will quickly spiral into racial hatred and extreme competitiveness.

Lots of fun coming for city-dwelling rabbits.

Spread r/K Theory, because the fun has not even begun yet