re: Native Climate May Influence Your Ability to Burn Calories

miriamw — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:37:06 GMT

i have always believed in eating locally grown unprocessed foods in season, and (though i mostly forget nowadays) eating ancestrally. it just makes sense. that said, us Jews moved around more than most folks. So, if you were from southern Italy or Sweden or Peru, your ancestors were likely there for thousands of years. As Jews, who knows? How long does it take to genetically adapt to a region. Certainly my ancestors lived around Russia for a least a few hundred years.... and consequently, I keep kasha (buckwheat) in my kitchen cabinets, and try to eat borscht (beet soup) at least occasionally. Of course, nowadays, one makes borscht using potatoes, but if you want to be purist, no one except South Americans would be eating potatoes, no one but people from the America's eating corn or tomatoes either. Italians would have to give up pasta as well as tomatoes. And the poor Irish, they shouldn't have even had a potato famine, because they shouldn't have been eating potatoes in the first place. And whatever else one suggests, do not tell me to give up dark chocolate (organic, free trade of course) which rightfully should only be eaten by Mayans and Aztecs.....

But tongue in cheek aside, my initial question remains. And oh yes, I am not living in a cold climate anymore. So it's a combination of things - eating foods that adapt you to your local climate, plus eating what is genetically advisable.