Post by Souriquois on Jan 10, 2018 12:15:46 GMT -4
I heard about a study, that showed that if obese people eat nothing but the food that their ancestors ate, they will go down to a healthy weight. This was initially done on Canadians of Vietnamese descent, when they ate a traditional Vietnamese diet, they all lost and maintained a healthy weight. However, if you feed Vietnamese food to a white person, this does not happen. But, if they eat nothing but the traditional food of the part of Europe their ancestors came from, they do lose and maintain a healthy weight.
I cannot find a link, probably for the best, the alt-right pseudoscience crew might use this to justify their beliefs.
I don't know how this would work for mixed people. Maybe one cuisine will work better than the cuisine of other parts of their ancestry, I do not know.
But the thing is, I am not just mixed, but my white ancestors have been in Canada for 400 years and the first two centuries lived among indigenous people so adopted many of their customs, including food, so I don't really know what dishes are of indigenous origin, what are of European, or what is a mixture/adaptation (it's all just food to me). I know our food is nothing like French food (which doesn't agree with me). As for my Faroese side, well, their food is actually quite similar to the food of many indigenous Canadian cultures, minus crops that grow in the Americas... and both traditional diets are high protein/fat and low carb/sugar, which is known to promote weight loss. TBH, I feel the most on top of my game, the most energy and focus, if I eat a Faroese diet, but I dunno, it's a hard diet to follow in North America lol
But the case of my white ancestors shows, cuisine changes over time, and there are many cultural cuisines that have influences from other cultures (probably all of them do).
Bad news for me, someone who loves South Asian food, and cooks it a lot, because in my early adulthood, I was separated from my own ethnic group so didn't learn how to cook stuff from my own culture that well, and learned how to cook from my mostly South Asian friends (I tried to cook food from my own culture for them, and teach them, and they liked it, but it never turned out as good as my mom's cooking lol).
I wonder why there is difference? Just recent adaptation? I know that if I eat things from other cultures that my ethnic group has never eaten, usually my stomach will get upset, probably because my body is not used to it. It is interesting.
I cannot find a link, probably for the best, the alt-right pseudoscience crew might use this to justify their beliefs.
I don't know how this would work for mixed people. Maybe one cuisine will work better than the cuisine of other parts of their ancestry, I do not know.
But the thing is, I am not just mixed, but my white ancestors have been in Canada for 400 years and the first two centuries lived among indigenous people so adopted many of their customs, including food, so I don't really know what dishes are of indigenous origin, what are of European, or what is a mixture/adaptation (it's all just food to me). I know our food is nothing like French food (which doesn't agree with me). As for my Faroese side, well, their food is actually quite similar to the food of many indigenous Canadian cultures, minus crops that grow in the Americas... and both traditional diets are high protein/fat and low carb/sugar, which is known to promote weight loss. TBH, I feel the most on top of my game, the most energy and focus, if I eat a Faroese diet, but I dunno, it's a hard diet to follow in North America lol
But the case of my white ancestors shows, cuisine changes over time, and there are many cultural cuisines that have influences from other cultures (probably all of them do).
Bad news for me, someone who loves South Asian food, and cooks it a lot, because in my early adulthood, I was separated from my own ethnic group so didn't learn how to cook stuff from my own culture that well, and learned how to cook from my mostly South Asian friends (I tried to cook food from my own culture for them, and teach them, and they liked it, but it never turned out as good as my mom's cooking lol).
I wonder why there is difference? Just recent adaptation? I know that if I eat things from other cultures that my ethnic group has never eaten, usually my stomach will get upset, probably because my body is not used to it. It is interesting.