You Truly Are What You Eat

Timothy Birdnow

Here's an interesting bit of work by Chinese scientists; turns out that when you eat something you, well, let me quote the article:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-materials.html

"In a new study, Chen-Yu Zhang's group at Nanjing university present a rather striking finding that plant miRNAs could make into the host blood and tissues via the route of food-intake. Moreover, once inside the host, they can elicit functions by regulating host "target" genes and thus regulate host physiology."

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So, we really ARE what we eat!

Not that we didn't know that it is possible to cause damage to the body through the ingestion of information; viruses cause changes to the body by kicking out cellular DNA and taking control of the cell, sort of an outside military coup against the cellular rulers.

Prions, too. Prions are free floating protein templates that take over the protein-bending duties in the body. Proteins are shaped by special templates that twist them into the necessary shapes needed by the organism. Prions replace those bending devices and shape the proteins into their own aggressive shapes. Are prions aliive? I would say less so than viruses, yet they do behave like living things. Koru (laughing sickness) is one example of a prion disease - and is transmitted through mortuary cannibalism ie. eating your dead granny. Mad cow is another.

But this is different; it's making changes to the genome itself, not simply destroying and replacing.

So, does that mean that changes we see in organisms, differences in creatures from one local or another has been driven by what they eat? Perhaps the difference between a North American mountain lion and the real deal on the African plains stems ultimately from their diet?

What does it mean? Is perhaps our thinking a result of changes to our genome triggered by food? Does eating lots of granola and yogurt make people into moonbat liberals? Pregnant women eating lowfat yogurt causes asthma and allergies in their children, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-low-fat-yogurt-intake-pregnant-child.html The moonbat liberals will doubtlessly have a field day with this; it will buttress Michelle Obama's "let's move" campaign to force the diet of her choice on the body politic (and down the throat politic).

This reminds me of a study a short while back that said if fathers ate lots of fatty foods they would change their genes to pass on diabetes to daughters they fathered.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8077282/Diabetic-fathers-with-poor-diets-more-likely-to-pass-condition-on-to-daughters.html

But this is a little different; it suggests a sharing of information between different life forms.

Many primitive peoples believed that by eating a mighty or powerful creature they could absorb some of that creature's power. Eat a dead tiger and you will have cat-like reflexes. Eat an eagle and you will be able to see like one. Maybe they weren't all wet after all.

Well, of course they were. But perhaps some epigenetic changes occured to their bodies via this route. Perhaps they developed immunities (or susceptibilities) to certain diseases to which they were never exposed, or perhaps they just drifted a bit, enough so that marrying close relatives (something common in isolated communities) became less damaging. Then too, perhaps they simply found new ways of getting sick.

Which brings us to ask the question; Barack Obama's grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama was a Mau-Mau, one of those Kenyan terrorists who resisted British rule. To join the club, the candidate to Mau-Mauhood had to committ sins in every religion, thus making them unfit to join any save Mau-Mau.

A colonial administrator named Frank Cornfield claimed;

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940578-1,00.html

"“By compelling Mau Mau members to violate not only Christian ethics but every tribal one as well, Mau Mau leaders deliberately reduced their victims to a state where a man who took the Mau Mau oath was cut off ‘from all hope, outside Mau Mau, in this world or the next. Cornfield found that to achieve this absolute loyalty to the movement, ‘ . . . leadership forced its recruits, voluntary or involuntary, to seal their oaths by digging up corpses and eating their putrefied flesh, copulating with sheep, dogs or adolescent girls, and by drinking the famed ‘Kaberichia cocktail’-a mixture of semen and menstrual blood.”

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So, what perhaps happened to Obama's epigenetic profile? Is he carrying mutations culled from some putrid ingestation of his gramps?

Well, SOMETHING has to explain why the man is the way he is!