Higher Incidence Of Diabetes In Native-Americans Linked To Fat-Hoarding Genes Likely Developed Due To The Nature Of Ancient Feasts
Why do Native Americans experience high rates of diabetes? A common theory is that they possess fat-hoarding “thrifty genes” left over from their ancestors – genes that were required for survival during ancient cycles of feast and famine, but that now contribute to the disease in a modern world of more fatty and sugary diets…
July 25, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: ancestors, diabetes, disease, experience-high, left-over, modern-world, more-fatty, native, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, the-disease, thrifty-genes
