Why some like it hot : food, genes, and cultural diversity / Gary Paul Nabhan.
Nabhan, Gary Paul.
2004
QH431 .N28 2004 (Mapit)
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Title Why some like it hot : food, genes, and cultural diversity / Gary Paul Nabhan.
Author Nabhan, Gary Paul.
ISBN 1559634669 (alk. paper)
Imprint Washington: Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2004.
Language English
Description 233 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number QH431 .N28 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 394.1
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-223) and index.
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Introduction
Ch. 1. Sailing through histories encoded in our bodies
Ch.2.
Searching for the ancestral diet
Did mitochondrial eve and java man feast on the same foods?
Ch. 3. Finding a bean for your genes and a buffer against malaria
Ch. 4. The shaping and shipping away of mediterranean cuisines
Ch . 5. Discovering why some don't like it hot
Is it a matter of taste?
Ch. 6. Dealing with migration headaches
Should we change places, diets, or genes?
Ch. 7. Rooting out the causes of disease
Why diabetes is so common among desert-dwellers
Ch. 8
Reconnecting the health of the people with the health of the land
How hawaiians are curing themselves.

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