nutrigenetics

"..Food shaped who we are, food that sustained our ancestors."

"The Aborigines' .. murmong and other valuable roots are eaten by the white man's sheep, and their deprivations, abuses and miseries are daily increasing"

"Among hunter gatherers such as the Hazda, rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer are so low that cases are hard to find. This is partly because of the rich diversity of the foods they eat and the high levels of fibre they consume (5x more than people in the industrialized world). Bitterness and sourness, both associated with wild foods, are often signals of health-giving properties."

"Although there are 1500 varieties of banana, global trade is dominated by one, the Cavendish, a cloned fruit grown in monocultures so vast their scale can only be comprehended from the view of an aeroplane or by satellite."