The only thing going on here is that some of us don't want to budge
>one inch on the idea that there could have been any dietary adatpation over
>the last 10,000 years and some of us think there possibly has been some.
>How much energy is worth devoting to this debate?
>
>Well, perhaps a considerable amount.  If there -are- some humans whose
>systems have adapted them to having slightly different needs, it's probably
>important to know that.  I may need to pick up D'Adamo's book....
>
>

It does seem that there has been some evolutionary changes in
digestive-metabolic systems in the recent past.  Guamanians have a well
known tendency to gain huge amounts of weight when they eat a modern,
American type diet.  Certainly their ancesters adapted to a different diet
than people in other areas.  And the Malaysian people have certain
idiosyncrasies about their teeth that came about presumably because of
diet.  If there can be changes in teeth, why not enzymes and other
digestive changes?
Paul Getty
Morehead City, NC
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