nutrigenetics

[nutrigenetics]

"Bear root..echinacea, goldenseal and American ginseng as a plant used by indigenous people and commercialized by colonists."

[nutrigenetics]

Processed food was for the poor

[nutrigenetics]

"Think about it. These ingredients were part of our diets for thousands of years, how can that not be passed on?"

[nutrigenetics]

"..Food shaped who we are, food that sustained our ancestors."

- Karlos Baca, Indigenous foods activist

[nutrigenetics]

"The Aborigines' .. murmong and other valuable roots are eaten by the white man's sheep, and their deprivations, abuses and miseries are daily increasing"

- Francis Tuckfield, a missionary in Australia

[nutrigenetics]

"Among hunter gatherers such as the Hazda, rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer are so low that cases are hard to find. This is partly because of the rich diversity of the foods they eat and the high levels of fibre they consume (5x more than people in the industrialized world). Bitterness and sourness, both associated with wild foods, are often signals of health-giving properties."

- Eating to Extinction

[nutrigenetics]

"Although there are 1500 varieties of banana, global trade is dominated by one, the Cavendish, a cloned fruit grown in monocultures so vast their scale can only be comprehended from the view of an aeroplane or by satellite."

- Eating to Extinction

[nutrigenetics]

Approximately 22% of all enzymes require a nutritional co-factor to function optimally

(via nutritionalpsychology)