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020 _a1559634669 (cloth : alk. paper)
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_b.N28 2004
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100 1 _aNabhan, Gary Paul.
245 1 0 _aWhy some like it hot :
_bfood, genes, and cultural diversity /
_cGary Paul Nabhan.
260 _aWashington:
_bIsland Press/Shearwater Books,
_cc2004.
300 _a233 p. ;
_c21 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-223) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- Ch. 1. Sailing through histories encoded in our bodies -- Ch.2. -- Searching for the ancestral diet -- Did mitochondrial eve and java man feast on the same foods? -- Ch. 3. Finding a bean for your genes and a buffer against malaria -- Ch. 4. The shaping and shipping away of Mediterranean cuisines --Ch . 5. Discovering why some don't like it hot -- Is it a matter of taste? -- Ch. 6. Dealing with migration headaches -- Should we change places, diets, or genes? -- Ch. 7. Rooting out the causes of disease -- Why diabetes is so common among desert-dwellers -- Ch. 8 -- Reconnecting the health of the people with the health of the land -- How Hawaiians are curing themselves.
650 0 _aHuman population genetics.
650 0 _aFood preferences.
650 0 _aEthnic groups.
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