Very interesting stuff, Ray. What you say fits with my experiences in
that one of the healthiest people I know has refused to eat any green
leafy vegetables since she was a small child. She's in her 50s now,
and is quite healthy. Traditional science and medicine would say she
should be suffering from all kinds of problems because of her
'inadequate' diet. Yet, she remains unusually healthy. The science
behind nutrition has not advanced very far or very fast, and cannot
explain such anomalies. Epigenetics is a very new area, and hasn't had
time to make sense of many of it's own discoveries yet. But, I think
it will become quite an important area in the future.
On Dec 26, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Ray Harrell wrote:
Thanks Barry, we are having a food discussion on a traditional
list where I am the webmaster. It is common in our myths of
previous eras for each era to have its own food. In Africa there
are people who only eat one thing while down the road another eat
something totally different and yet they are both healthy. A
few years back there was a conference at Rockefeller University here
on the extreme diversity of diets around the world and how we are
shaped by our history and that our bodies are not as able to
synthesize international foods as much as our egos would tell us.
It was a common phrase that our stomachs “were formed in the
Pleistocene.” What it really came down to was this as one
researcher told me: “When it comes to nutrition we basically don’t
know shit!” A telling statement to say the least on many levels.
REH
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Subject: [Futurework] You are what your father ate, too: Paternal
diet affects lipid metabolizing genes in offspring, research suggests
Given recent discussions of epigenetics, I thought I'd forward these
two links. The first is a very brief summary of research reported at
the second.
Barry
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101223130149.htm
http://www.cell.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867410014261#Summary
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