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>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.


Hi Mike, a while ago we had a discussion on this list about exactly this
topic.
Perhaps depending on how long your ancesters have lived relatively
"undisturbed" by civilisation there may be more or less tolerance to certain
foods.  The way Simiaks have little tolerance to alcohol because having been
unexposed to it is to me an indication of some truth in that theory. Or the
vulnerability of Aboriginals and Native Americans to western SAD which sadly
seems to make them addicted more easy to alcohol and drugs then westerners.
Having said that, I am of mixed european background and could get rat-arsed
drunk from a small alcoholic drink. Genetic disposition might be involved as
my father is someone who has been drinking sturdily all his life and not in a
pleasant way... That's why I don't drink at all!
I love exotic foods but know I do better sticking to foods of the area I'm in
and of the season we're in.
Who was it that wrote a while ago about originally being from a Baltic state,
now living in Sweden and doing better on a diet with more fish? To me there is
nothing racial about saying this. Possibly it is more sensitive to talk about
racial subjects for Americans than it is overhere but I accept there just ARE
different people on the planet. Makes a lot of sense to me that for instance
people who live in an area with higher levels of arsen in the soil are adapted
to it better than those who were not used to it. Same goes for foods that were
common somewhere and can be part of a staple diet for the people there and
that might be harder to digest for others.
Heck, from watching a lot of archaelogy programs I learned that examination of
the teeth can show where a person grew up because the water leaves it's mark
in the molecular structure of those teeth. Even remains of a long time ago
(Roman period) have been examined that way and shown interesting results.
A man they investigated died in what is now the UK but was born in the Middle
East. So if a body is so very much marked by what is digested it make it
reasonable to think certain foods can be digested better than others as well.
After all the saying goes: We are what we eat....


Christy

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