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But most of the local foods are actually being grown in there and it's very jumbled and wonderfully mixed way. So,
大多數當地食品都是在這些菜園生產，什么東西都混在一起生長
There is many different kinds of what they call jungle spaghetti but it's shredded hearts of palm
他們這里有所謂的“叢林面”，也就是弄碎的棕櫚心
And the free range chickens wander around and you pick the bananas and
到處是放養的雞，還有香蕉可摘，
as a matter fact instead of power bars, what you do is you pick a whole front of bananas and you hang them on your porch, like the picture on the bottom there
他們那里的人不吃PowerBar這種零食，而是摘一整串香蕉掛到走廊上，如圖所示
When you get really hungry, that's what you eat for energy instead of your power bar, your candy bars. So
餓了要補充能量的時候，他們吃這個而不是PowerBar這類糖果
This really was the lifestyle there
這是那里的生活方式
And for me, I realized that it had a lot to do with the health, was truly this local diet but it wasn't just the foods itself
在我看來，當地這種飲食習慣非常健康而且還不僅是食物
It was actually the way that they were eaten, the sequence in the day
還包括他們的吃法以及順序
and the recipes and the spices that were used, and the fact that people ate together
食物的做法及香料使用，人們一起吃飯這一事實
and even the patterns in which they ate
這些都有助于健康
and I've started to become very very interested in really how a whole diet and a whole culture shapes the wellness of the community
我開始對此非常感興趣，想知道一種飲食文化是如何造就健康體質的
And we talk a lot about this idea of survival of the fittest people
我們經常講適者生存這一概念
But I really started to think what is it mean to have survival of the fittest diet
我開始覺得，這一概念也適用于飲食
These are diets that were handed down generation after generation from grandmother to granddaughter and so on
這些是他們祖祖輩輩傳承下來的飲食文化
Because they tasted delicious but also because they kept people healthy
不僅因為美味，還因為健康
And really there's a lot of reason in this
這是非常說得通的
