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The Center for American Progress reports:
African Americans, a group plagued by significantly high rates of obesity, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, and other physical ailments. A recent study suggests the answer may lie in the diets of their counterparts across the Atlantic Ocean in the rural parts of the Motherland.
In a study conducted at the University of Pittsburgh, 20 African Americans and 20 South Africans switched diets for two weeks. In this time, the Africans consumed traditional American food--meat and cheese high in fat content--while African Americans took on a traditional African diet--high in fiber and low in fat, with plenty of vegetables, beans, and cornmeal, with little meat.
After the exchange, researchers performed colonoscopies on both groups and found that those in the African diet group increased the production of butyrate, a fatty acid proven to protect against colon cancer. Members of the American diet group, on the other hand, developed changes in their gut that scientists say precede the development of cancerous cells.
[...]"we used biomarkers and looked at the proliferation rate that has been tied to cancer," Dr. Stephen J. O'Keefe, the lead researcher, told ThinkProgress. "We were astounded by the gravity and the magnitude of the changes [which] happened within two weeks."
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 17 2015, @07:01PM
Except for native Americans, every one else is an immigrant. So, shouldn't every body be identified by their country of origin ? For example, we can have German-American, British-American, Irish-American, Polish-American, Canadian-American, Chinese-American, Indian-American, Pakistani-American, Mexican-American, etc
(Score: 3, Informative) by RedGreen on Sunday May 17 2015, @07:53PM
"Native Americans" are not native to the Americas either, they came across the land bridge between Asia and Alaska so we are are all non-natives to this area.
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(Score: 2) by quacking duck on Monday May 18 2015, @01:33AM
That's why in Canada, they are referred to as "First Nations"—they aren't native to this land, but they were the first to form societies here.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday May 18 2015, @01:42PM
By that logic every ethnic group on this planet outside of that one place in Africa where humans developed are not native to their lands. Chinese people were the first people to settle in China. They are not native to that land. They did not just pop up from the ground. They came from somewhere.
From what I gather, the San people [wikipedia.org] are the only true natives to anything.