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From: "Trish" <[log in to unmask]>

  I definitely think the food choices made by our ancestors have everything 
to do with our genetics today.  It's
> all about the heavy reliance on grains other easily absorbed carbs that I 
> think are to blame.
>

Trish, there was an excellent program on PBS several months ago that 
addressed this question.  The researchers had studied a geographically 
isolated northern European community, where very accurate records have been 
kept for a long time in the island's church.

I don't remember the details, but I do remember that the geneticists 
crunched the numbers and discovered that there was a difference in the 
current inhabitants' ability to gain weight depending on whether or not 
their great-grandfathers reached puberty during times of plentiful food or 
near famine.  In other words, it made a difference as to whether people 
currently living in the area had great grandparents who ate a lot of food 
during puberty.

Kath