[ExI] IQ and beauty

Sat Oct 24 04:51:11 UTC 2015

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > 
> 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.
>

I
nuits eat more animal fat and protein

and less fruit and vegetables than any other people in the world
and
 yet cardiovascular disease is

very

rare
 for them
and prostate cancer virtually unknown
;
their diet may be bad but they've thrived on i
t
for centuries, but then they had to.

> > 
> 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.
>

The ancestors of the
 Polynesians
 were the survivors of epic long sea voyages, most people would not
survive such a voyage but those that did probably had a
 natural metabolism
that 
stored more body fat than
the 
average
person,
 and those genes would
be the genes that 
survive
d to this day
. Maybe that's why Polynesians suffer more from obesity than other people
.

> > 
> Add to this, skinny people in Africa are often skinny because they have a
> calorie poor diet.
>

Usually but not always, sometimes the cause is in the genes.

The 
Maasai

and

Dinka

people live in a part of Sudan that is very hot
 and
 dry, and their body
is of a 
shape

 to maximize evaporative cooling with
its
 big surface
 area
 to volume
 ratio;
 they tend to be thin and very tall, the average woman

is 6 feet tall and the average man is 6 feet 4 inches. Pygmies on the other
hand live where
it's
 hot and humid and
 so
evaporative cooling

would do little good
,
so the best
way
 to stay cool
there 
is to just be small, so the average woman is

4 foot 4 inches

tall and the average man

4 foot 5 inches

  John K Clark
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