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To: Pharmboy

5 posted on 12/25/2013 6:23:53 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Well, churros probably are involved.

Until Europeans (the Spanish) arrived, the natives had no cooking oils, no sugar and very little animal protein, particularly in certain more barren parts of the inland Americas. Sheep, cattle, domesticated goats and draft or transportation animals such as horses were all brought by the Spanish.

Indians weren’t immediately able to adapt to this change in diet, although I suspect that it was really the change to a sedentary lifestyle in the 20th century that did them in.


9 posted on 12/25/2013 7:03:13 PM PST by livius
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The incidence of diabetes within the Pima community living in Arizona vs. those in Mexico illustrates the influence of environment on similar genomes. Please see here.
11 posted on 12/25/2013 7:16:19 PM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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