i dont have trouble believing this
our diets are extremely crappy. most vegetables that are eaten are consumed after they're cooked thoroughly.. and excessive cooking of vegetables = loss of nutrients
"many of the nutrients from vegetables can get leached during cooking. The key is to watch out for cooking vegetables too long, and with too much water, says Filardo" from
How To Cook Vegetables from OnHealth
also the same vegetables are almost always consumed while they reek in oil
but...some things.
'south asian' encompasses a VERY broad range of people.
this article
Indians more prone to HIV-AIDS than other population
read the whole thing. but some points of relevance.
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The study also shows that the risk increases as one moves from north to south India. It also says the Indian gene pool is quite varied and the term or description "Indian" is hardly homogenous. It includes several variations across population groups spread across the country's land mass.
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The study, a part of the Indian Genome variation initiative, has generated information on over 4,000 genetic markers from more than 1,000 biomedically important and pharmacogenetically relevant genes in reference groups. It reveals a high degree of genetic differentiation among Indian ethnic groups and suggests that "pooling" of endogamous populations without regard to "ethno- linguistic factors" will result in false inferences.
"We note that the people of India are referred as 'Indian' in many population genetic studies. The implication of such usage is that the Indian population is genetically homogeneous, which, as the results of our study indicate, is evidently not true. However, we have also shown it is possible to identify large clusters of ethnic groups that have substantial genetic homogeneity," it says.
The mapping is expected to help in constructing "specific drug response/disease predisposition maps" to aid policy decision making for drug dosage interventions and disease risk management, especially for complex and infectious diseases.
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