It is common knowledge that people whose ancestors evolved in different parts
of the planet 
tend to also share different racial characteristics, such as skin color, hair
color, etc. This is not 
an invitation to introduce racial prejudice into the paleo discussion, but it
would seem to me 
that these particular racial characteristics evolved for very specific
reasons, not least of which 
would be the diet that was available in the part of the world that a
particular branch of 
humanity lives/lived.

Given that people eat/ate different things in different places, is there any
reason to believe that 
certain types of diets wouldn't work better for some people than others? In
the case of paleo, 
we have such a wide variety of foods available to us that any one of us,
regardless of race, can 
basically eat the paleo diet of any human subgroup that we wish... even in the
same meal. This 
would not have been an option to our ancestors who would have been limited
strictly to the 
particular types of foods that were available in their region, and only those
foods.

Is there any research available on this? Will any variety of paleo diet, as
long as it's strictly kept, 
work for any human ethnic group? Or should certain people eat more of a
certain type of food 
than someone from a different ethnic background? I understand that there is a
very fine line to 
the question that I am asking, so please understand that I am NOT asking a
question designed 
to offend anyone. The question is not: DO people of different ethnicities eat
different foods. The 
question is: from a paleo perspective, SHOULD we?

Mike


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