Paul Saladino· MD
if you look at the way genes are turned on in human fat it seems to predispose us it seems to indicate that we were eating a higher fat diet and chimpanzees a higher carbohydrate diet
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if you look at the way genes are turned on in human fat it seems to predispose us it seems to indicate that we were eating a higher fat diet and chimpanzees a higher carbohydrate diet
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the quote was taken together these results suggest that humans shut down regions of the genome to accommodate a high fat diet presumably animal fat as we're talking about while chimpanzees open regions of the genome to accommodate a high sugar diet