Are there some foods you just decided not to like? I mean without giving them a chance - based on your ideas of what they'll be like, or how they look, or because you've had them one way and that way wasn't very good. I know I've got a few of those. I'm making a conscious effort, though, to try things that I don't know for sure that I don't like. I just don't want to be embarrassed by being the picky person at the table anymore. Plus, I'm not going to have uncomfortable experiences traveling (well, of course, I will, that's part of traveling - but perhaps not in the turning-down-one's-host's-food way).
"Several sources of information suggest that human beings evolved on a
diet with a ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 essential fatty acids (EFA) of
approximately 1 whereas in Western diets the ratio is 15/1-16.7/1.
Western diets are deficient in omega-3 fatty acids, and have excessive
amounts of omega-6 fatty acids compared with the diet on which human
beings evolved and their genetic patterns were established. Excessive
amounts of omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and a very high
omega-6/omega-3 ratio, as is found in today's Western diets, promote the
pathogenesis of many diseases, including cardiovascular disease,
cancer, and inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, whereas increased
levels of omega-3 PUFA (a low omega-6/omega-3 ratio) exert suppressive
effects." - National Center for Biotechnology Information
