
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Dan TheBookMan </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Inuits, from my reading, tend to get obese not because that's their normal body thingy but because they tend to adopt a bad diet.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">I</font></div><font size="4">nuits eat more animal fat and protein<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>and less fruit and vegetables than any other people in the world <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">and</div> yet cardiovascular disease is<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>very<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>rare<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> for them </div>and prostate cancer virtually unknown<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">;</div> their diet may be bad but they've thrived on i<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">t</div> for centuries, but then they had to.  </font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>The same thing happens to Polynesians. And Polynesia isn't known for being frigid. So, I wouldn't draw too many conclusions from body shape and size.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">The ancestors of the</font></div><font size="4"> Polynesians<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> were the survivors of epic long sea voyages, most people would not survive such a voyage but those that did probably had a</div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> natural metabolism <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">that </div>stored more body fat than <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">the </div>average <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">person,</div> and those genes would <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">be the genes that </div>survive<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">d to this day</div>. Maybe that's why Polynesians suffer more from obesity than other people<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">.</div></span></font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Add to this, skinny people in Africa are often skinny because they have a calorie poor diet.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Usually but not always, sometimes the cause is in the genes.</div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:museo_sans;letter-spacing:-0.1px;line-height:21px"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">The </div></span>Maasai<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">and</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Dinka<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,he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