Posted on 07/03/2010 10:53:04 AM PDT by Duke C.
The first reports of a steep drop in the age of puberty began to emerge from the U.S. just over a decade ago - around the time my son Tony was born - but I didn't take too much notice back then.
If it was a real problem, I reasoned, I would know someone with a child in this situation and back then I did not.
As with so many other health stories, sceptical scientists quickly stepped in to criticise the methods used in the American studies, while others blamed the lifestyle there - too much obesity, too much sitting in front of televisions and computer screens and too much hormone-treated beef.
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Hmm.
BTW, most everybody thinks there's only one allele ~ which is true for maybe 95% of humanity, but that other 5% have HUNDREDS ~
All I can figure out is that since the people who live next to the Big Ice during an ice age glacial advance actually live in the world's dryest and dustiest environment, there's been a selective advantage for anomalous liver functions ~ since the liver can separately handle excess iron to get rid of it from your system.
Oh, and where's the iron coming from? Well, that's the dust their breathing and the animals they're eating. Seals, for instance, have 25 times as much iron in their tissues as the next nearest animal.
Efficient use of milk and milk byproducts requires even more changes than a simple adjustment for lifelong production of lactase ~ there are proteins in cow's milk that are "harmful" without your having some gene changes. Then there are cowborn diseases ~ you need some immunity, and next thing you know you've racked up humdreds of gene changes just so you and your tribe can drink milk, eat cheese and enjoy yoghurt!
The Chinese have managed to do that with rice.
I don't know about soy ~ but there are plenty of people out there who have difficulty with it. Others seem to thrive on it. Just a matter of time until someone determines which gene changes have occurred just so folks can eat soy all the time.
Worth noting, the ordinary garden pea derives from a body of plants that are poisonous or toxic. Through time the bad ones have been winnowed out of the cultivar, and we use only the safe ones. Down in the Sahel they have a variety of pea that grows well in extended droughts. People eat it anyway but it makes them grow blind. An agricultural researcher developed a variety to distribute among the people there so that when the drought gets out of hand they can still have peas to eat. Costs money to distribute. That's where it's at. He's got what they need. They are dirt poor.
A researcher in Finland produced a doctoral dissertation where he argued, and proved, that Type 1 diabetes has a selective advantage in Finland's climate (really cold, most of the time). The result is they have the world's highest incidence of Type 1 diabetes AND the number of folks walking around with at least one allele to produce Type 1 is truly phenomenol. He said this gene adjustment provides people with extra sugar in their blood and other tissues so they can stay warm.
He may well have identified a third type of hereditary diabetes ~ that's the one between Type 1 and Type 2.
Don't believe food advocates who refuse to recognize those differences. One man's meat is another man's poison.
Cool, thanks!
Back in 1938 when she was 9 years old, my mother started menstruation. Its been going on for decades. each girl is different.
If it's such great stuff why are researchers finding that Chinese appear to have been "adapted" to eating it?
It's kind of like living on nothing but meat. Some humans can do it. They all descend from people who lived at or near the Arctic for thousands of years. If you had genes that demanded vegetables you would have died off and left no descendants.
My wife's first concern about my health was raised way back when we were dating and she said "I don't believe I've ever met anyone before who could eat only meat" ~ which was the first time I'd noticed that I could live on just meat. Veggies made me sick!
But the majority of modern American mothers are also delaying marriage (if they even bother to get married) and having fewer children compared to their mothers and grandmothers. And the kids they do have tend to be more obese and out-of-shape compared to earlier generations of kids. Fast food diets further compound the problem.
The rising generation is destined to become obese, tattooed, childless chunk monkeys squatting on electric carts and tethered to supplemental oxygen bottles, cruising the aisles in WalMart, grubbing for Cheetos and and CheezWhiz.
Wait a minute. We're already there.
A balanced diet is still the best way to ensure optimum health. Good balances of veggies and meats, grains, starches with execise in the mix will pretty much meet the vast majorities of folks needs. Rice has been consumed in this country almost since its founding, it is a starch source but also a good protein source. My kids love it and its great with chicken and all kinds of dishes. Now an interesting study would be to guage health effects of brown rice verses the white ‘enriched” type that has been polished of its “hulls”. Plus the Chinese you mention didn’t just live on rice but often mix all “sorts” of plants and animals with their rice.(stir fried rat with chinese vegetables and rice anyone?)
Only the wealthy and powerful were allowed to eat meat. (SEE: Bandits of the Marsh).
Only the wealthy and powerful were allowed to eat meat. (SEE: Bandits of the Marsh).
Since I filled a shelf in my food closet with lingoberry jam I've felt much better ~ knowing it's there just in case.
A balanced diet for Eskimos is the old standby beluga whale, a garnish of fermented seal blubber and, to top it all off, some toasted seaweed.
You other guys are free to eat what you want of course, but don't come crying to us when the Big Ice comes back.
We told you!
Humans adapt after a few generations to dietary availabilities. I suspect some of the adjustments come during childhood, no matter what racial make up. If a caucasian child has only blubber and sea weed to eat as a child, I’ll wager the child’s digestive systems tune for it. It would be harder for adults to tune for sudden dietary changes, of course!
Now looking at your diet, you get rich omega 3 laden fats and vitamin d(seals eating fish) from the seal, range fed low fat high grade protein from the reindeer, and vitamins c and a from the lingonberries. Top off some of that sea weed you are talking about and you get iron and some important trace elements including iodine. Sounds like you have a pretty balanced diet already. Throw in a few fish and some other odds and ends and you are all set. Now could I digest it as opposed to you, I don’t know...but I’ll bet I’d lose weight trying!
It takes death to adapt a human population to a given diet ~ and lots of it, but maybe not as many generations as imagined.
There appears to have been a population TRAPPED on the Arctic Coast of Western Europe by the Younger Dryas. They adapted to a seal diet fairly quickly. It's possible they'd already been preadapted to a near toxic level of iron in their environment though.
The Eskimo are also closely related to the Yakuts/Sakha, who speak a Turkic language ~ but the Yakuts are herdsmen by trade and lifestyle, and actually herd cattle and horses farther North than any other people. They also herd reindeer, yak, goats, sheep, etc. Their biggest cultural and economic difference from the people around them has to do with herding cattle. Those babies are adapted ~ world's most Northerly surviving cattle.
BTW, people cannot survive on a diet of more than 40% protein. They have to have the fats and oils and rumor has it that Sa'ami fishermen do survive on nothing but fish when at sea.
I am becoming frustrated too. I went to Whole Foods to find an “animal cracker” for my kids and everything had some type of soy in it.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
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