true hunter gatherers have very diverses diets all over the world but there
is certain constances on which the paleo diet is designed .
it is absollutelly one of the caracteristic of paleo diet,  to eat
bioregionally from your own environment not from what travelled thousands
miles away .
jean-claude


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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