"Julia Altshuler" > wrote in message
>
> There's considerable epidemiologic evidence that once a group immigrates
> to the United States, they start eating the highly processed foods so
> common here and getting the diseases associated with that diet despite
> the availability of native foods. So the general answer to your
> question is no, food preferences are not genetic.

Far from scientific evaluation, my observations confirm this. We have
immigrants from a few countries at work. Some stick to their native foods,
but most of their children prefer the same pizza and burgers we eat most of
the time. The older people seem to stick more traditional than the younger.
Ed

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