01698cam a2200277 4500 348595556 TxAuBib 20110414120000.0 040302s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004005033 9781597260916 1597260916 TxAuBib Nabhan, Gary Paul. Why Some Like It Hot : Food, Genes, And Cultural Diversity / Gary Paul Nabhan. Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2004. 233 p. ; 22 cm. "A Shearwater book.". Includes bibliographical references and index. Discering the histories encoded in our bodies -- Searching for the ancestral diet -- Did mitochondrial eve and java man feast on the same foods? -- Finding a bean for your genes and a buffer against malaria -- The shaping and shipping away of Mediterranean cuisines -- Discovering why some don't like it hot : is it a matter of taste? -- Dealing with migration headaches : should we change places, diets, or genes? -- Rooting out the causes of disease : why diabetes is so common among desert-dwellers -- Reconnecting the health of the people with the health of the land : how Hawaiians are curing themselves. THE EXPLORATION OF THE COEVOLUTION AND THEIR NATIVE FOODS COULDN'T BE MORE TIMELY, ...MIXING HARD SCIENCE WITH PERSONAL ANECDOTES. NABHAN ARGUES THAT HEALTH COMES FROM A GENETICALLY APPROPRIATE DIET INEXTRICABLY ENTWINED WITH A HEALTHY LAND AND CULTURE. 20061020. Human population genetics. Food preferences. Ethnic groups.