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Re: WHY...???

Posted By: William Carpenter (za6023590.ip.fs.fed.us)
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2007, @ 12:01 p.m.

In Response To: Re: WHY...??? (Arthur "Superman" Jones)

FYI, the obesity thing in Native Americans does have a scientific explination. I watched a documentary that explained how many Native Americans have a gene that allowed their ancestors to survive in the harsh conditions of precolonization, due to the lack of food for long strectches in certain areas this gene allowed them to store a greater amount of their food as body fat and burned it way slower which allowed them to survive during the lean times. But with todays greater availability of food this gene is no longer a benefit but a deteremite since the gene is still active and will likely take many more generations for the gene to become inactive.

And I worked in Arizona for a winter a couple of years back, I ran into more Native Americans then I ever had before. But then I was working in Holbrook which is just on the SW corner of the Navajo Reservation.

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