Are there racial differences in meat digestive capability?!
Are there racial differences in meat digestive capability?
For example, do people from India have a reduced capacity to process meat without unpleasant side effects?
Answers:
perhaps the use of the term racial is too broad, but for sure where there are specific patterns of food consumption, there develop certain genetic trends. Thus, especially in remote areas and especially in the Old World, you may find that people have developed different life expectancy, or a preponderance to certain maladies or other specific phsyical traits and we explain this in terms of the dietary customs of this or that community. As for the example about people from India, if they have not trained their stomach to digest red meat from early age and start all of the sudden consuming it, they will surely develop many problems, just like certain indigenous people developped diabetes when they became introduced to the delicacies of our delicious junk food
I think its all in what you eat already, not your race. For instance, If I was raised on beans and rice, once I eat beef, it may be hard to digest.
A human body can get used to anything! If a person over in India started eating red meat, then their bodies would digest the red meat the same as it digests in my stomach. We are all the same (unless there is an allergie to a food) We are all the same! :-)
interesting question.maybe you are right.I know native American men don't suffer from male pattern baldness,while african american men and caucasian men have the highest rates of male pattern baldness.nobody knows why though.maybe there is also a difference in the way different races digest meats.i don't think race is a big factor,but maybe where you live or descend from is.
I don't know. I don't think anything has come out about genetics and meat eating but I read something recently about how people who eat meat produce a certain acid that vegetarians don't. This causes meat to feel very heavy in the stomach of a vegetarian. If you don't eat meat the body stops or never starts producing this certain acid. I can't remember where I read this so I can't be sure.
There is some evidence of a genetic link to milk drinking however- here is a link.
A recent article points out how we became lactose tolerent though a mutation originating in a certain area of the world.