Diet vs Genes
Dear Rich and Joe, Concerning the comments on "Diet vs Genes" = Dr. Dean Ornish patients were often heart patients who were sent home to die, because medical science had nothing left to offer them. Serious dietary and lifestyle changes were able to return the majority of them to healthy, active lifestyles. Now which would you rather do " a " accept the diagnosis and wait to die, or " b " throw yourself into the lifestyle changes and research and study and improve your health and reclaim an active healthier life than you had before heart health problems challenged your life. Choose wisely, Love, Edith rich101@... Subject: Re: diet vs. genes Good morning Joe, Rural Japanese have 1/10 the heart attack rate of Americans until they move to the US. They and their dependents then develop the same rate of heart attacks as we do. They both have the same genes. A personal observation. At one time in my life I was married to a young lady of Japanese ancestry. Her grandmother was about 4 feet tall, 90 years old and full of energy. She ate mostly rice. She was rarely sick. My wifes mother was somewhat taller, ate American food about half of the time and seemed to be sick fairly often. My wife was taller than both her mother and grandmother, ate nothing but American food and was sick a lot. Of course they all had the same genes. We lived in Hawaii, and it was not uncommon to see old fillipino men in the best of health and with quite young wives. Their sons were often sickly , suffering from diabetes, and heart attacks.. The difference was diet. The old men lived on rice and vegetables, the sons on American junk food. By the way, the Hawaiians are about as sick a group of people as you will find anywhere, cancer, heart disease, Diabetes , obesity , are common. They of course love high fat junk food, and lots of salt. Their ancestors were strong athletic people that lived healthy lives on a diet of Poi that is made from the taro plant. The drawings made by Captain Cook when he discovered Hawaii show trim, slim, healthy looking people. Except for the Royalty, they sometimes weighed three and four hundred pounds! They ate all the rich foods, the commoners ate Poi. I grant you genes do have a role in our health, but we can't do a thing about them. Diet is at least under our control. Take care, Rich << in heart trouble, and he replied that diet had nothing to do with it. It was all in the genes. Alas, he's mostly right. Some people live to 100 with atrocious diets. Others die at 60 despite rigorous diets and exercise regimens. The #1 risk factor for a lot of things is genetic. <<