Ancestral Diet... eating right for your origins
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This makes about as much sense as the blood type diet.
Which would be, none. None sense at all.0 -
TheBeachgod wrote: »This makes about as much sense as the blood type diet.
Which would be, none. None sense at all.
Diet? I'd settle for having my attitude match my blood type (B+).0 -
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The 57 in Heinz is for 57 varieties of products. My father referred to our mixed European ancestry as being a Heinz 57, or mutt if being a little less polite. So maybe eat mutts with ketchup? I think that's banned in most states.0 -
TheBeachgod wrote: »This makes about as much sense as the blood type diet.
Which would be, none. None sense at all.
Qft
People love to take small bits of fact and twist them into ridiculousness!0 -
WhatMeRunning wrote: »I'm Scotch-Irish. So potatoes, haggis, whiskey, beer and I am good to go apparently.
I'm suspicious of this, no Scot would refer to themselves as a drink...........
As an aside, I'm Scottish/English/Irish and possible Welsh. Let's just call it British and probably some Viking and other Europeans if we go far enough back. My see through pale skin suggests mostly British though. So beer, whisky, pastry, meat, deep fried everything, potatoes and clooty dumpling. Seems legit.0 -
Mister_Ladyfingers wrote: »This makes me feel bad for people born into cannibal tribes.
Well I mean...I guess if it's got like....a missionary's foot in or something, then hey
Prion diseases could always take care of that.0 -
questionfear wrote: »I am a polish jew-does that mean I get to eat tons of bagels and cream cheese? (In all seriousness, I hope I don't have to eat like my grandma, I really don't like whitefish salad or pickled herring).
Gefilte fish?
Apparently there's artisanal, gourmet gefilte fish now which is much tastier. I like picked herring, at least the kind we buy at the store, which is preserved with white wine. I draw the line at chicken liver. When I was a kid my (non-Jewish) grandmother made it often and I liked it, but now I don't know what I was thinking.
I have some relatives who live in Minnesota and I like to joke about lutefisk, which apparently is disgusting no matter what you do it. Maybe one day I'll have some, with a side of haggis.
I'll have you know haggis is delicious!
Another thought. On the fried foods thing. I like it but man does my tummy not enjoy it very much. I still eat it now and then because fish and chips and fried chicken but I suffer for it. No adaptation there.0 -
VintageFeline wrote: »questionfear wrote: »I am a polish jew-does that mean I get to eat tons of bagels and cream cheese? (In all seriousness, I hope I don't have to eat like my grandma, I really don't like whitefish salad or pickled herring).
Gefilte fish?
Apparently there's artisanal, gourmet gefilte fish now which is much tastier. I like picked herring, at least the kind we buy at the store, which is preserved with white wine. I draw the line at chicken liver. When I was a kid my (non-Jewish) grandmother made it often and I liked it, but now I don't know what I was thinking.
I have some relatives who live in Minnesota and I like to joke about lutefisk, which apparently is disgusting no matter what you do it. Maybe one day I'll have some, with a side of haggis.
I'll have you know haggis is delicious!
Another thought. On the fried foods thing. I like it but man does my tummy not enjoy it very much. I still eat it now and then because fish and chips and fried chicken but I suffer for it. No adaptation there.
It really is.0 -
I'm have about 7 different ethnicities. I guess I can eat everything0
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As an American descendant of a hodgepodge of cultures, what should I eat?0
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Carlos_421 wrote: »As an American descendant of a hodgepodge of cultures, what should I eat?
Everything.0 -
juggernaut1974 wrote: »Whitezombiegirl wrote: »juggernaut1974 wrote: »It never ceases to amaze me how people can fall for the idea that an ideal diet comes from a time when the average life span was 30-ish years old.
Thats got very little to do with diet and more to do with lack of modern medicine e.g antibiotics. Also higher infant mortality alters the stats.
Just so I'm clear...are you suggesting that diet has nothing to do with longer life spans?
Bah...I'm a public health student and I tend to love the juggernaut posts and while, yes...diet does have something to do with longer life spans...diet is really a very sexy, modern and tangible health topic and it would be hard to isolate diet as a major contributing factor to the lengthening of life spans...a lot of it has to do with better infant/maternal mortality rates, large reductions in accidental deaths, and dare I bring up John Snow's pump handle contribution to sanitation and hygiene reducing the spread of infectious disease. ...0 -
WhatMeRunning wrote: »I'm Scotch-Irish. So potatoes, haggis, whiskey, beer and I am good to go apparently.
Potatoes are from the Andes. Try again!0 -
sunnybeaches105 wrote: »sunnybeaches105 wrote: »juggernaut1974 wrote: »
Nope, no such thing.
Actually there is, in parts of Asia, Africa, far north America, and South America. Homogeneous when it comes to genetics means common/similar, not exact (which I am assuming is what you are thinking).
Twins are . . .
Except that they've found more genetic commonalities between people of different "races" than those of the same "race". Which makes the term race kind of pointless.
The real question is whether it's cultural appropriation to eat food that doesn't come from your ancestral background . . .
You can appreciate without appropriate.
Gave me a good chuckle.0 -
juggernaut1974 wrote: »It never ceases to amaze me how people can fall for the idea that an ideal diet comes from a time when the average life span was 30-ish years old.
We now know that short life spans of the past had more to do with how numbers were figured. Infant mortality rates heavily influenced average life expectancy.
Yes...I have ancestors in the middle ages (Tudor England, Medieval Spain) who were living into their 60s and 70s...well, the ones who didn't die in battles or lose their heads at a premature age.0 -
I should have clarified in my OP by stating folks who are genetically homogeneous. And since I didn't, it invited a whole slew of other comments and confusion. lol
It looks like something that would only appeal to people who are immigrants or their ancestors were, and also managed to not mix with immigrants from other areas or with "locals"? Since e.g. the eat like your ancestors idea and the whole ancestors and origins thing would really not be such a novelty or anything to get excited about if you are a Chinese living in China, an Italian living in Italy, a Pakistani living in Pakistan and so on...0 -
How about we're all human beings and if you go back far enough we share a common ancestor.
Eat what you're not allergic to. Ancestral diet is a ridiculous concept.0 -
azulvioleta6 wrote: »WhatMeRunning wrote: »I'm Scotch-Irish. So potatoes, haggis, whiskey, beer and I am good to go apparently.
Potatoes are from the Andes. Try again!
Pretty sure people who are 80-90 living in Ireland did in fact eat potatoes.0
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