Why Some Like It Hot Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity

Name: Why Some Like It Hot Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
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ISBN: 9781597260916

ISBN-10: 1597260916

ISBN-13: 9781597260916

Edition: 2004

Authors: Gary Paul Nabhan

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Do your ears burn whenever you eat hot chile peppers? Does your face immediately flush when you drink alcohol? Does your stomach groan if you are exposed to raw milk or green fava beans? If so, you are probably among the one-third of the world's human population that is sensitive to certain foods due to your genes' interactions with them. Formerly misunderstood as "genetic disorders," many of these sensitivities are now considered to be adaptations that our ancestors evolved in response to the dietary choices and diseases they faced over millennia in particular landscapes. They are liabilities only when we are "out of place," on globalized diets depleted of certain chemicals that triggered…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 6/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

He is a prize-winning author & naturalist, lives in Tucson, where he is director of conservation biology at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum & cofounder of Native Seeds/Search.



Introduction



Discerning the Histories Encoded in Our Bodies



Searching for the Ancestral Diet: Did Mitochondrial Eve and Java Man Feast on the Same Foods?



Finding a Bean for Your Genes and a Buffer Against Malaria



The Shaping and Shipping Away of Mediterranean Cuisines



Discovering Why Some Don't Like It Hot: Is It a Matter of Taste?



Dealing with Migration Headaches: Should We Change Places, Diets, or Genes?



Rooting Out the Causes of Disease: Why Diabetes Is So Common Among Desert Dwellers



Reconnecting the Health of the People with the Health of the Land: How Hawaiians Are Curing Themselves


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