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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,
大多数当地食品都是在这些菜园生产，什么东西都混在一起生长
There is many different kinds of what they call jungle spaghetti but it's shredded hearts of palm
他们这里有所谓的“丛林面”，也就是弄碎的棕榈心
And the free range chickens wander around and you pick the bananas and
到处是放养的鸡，还有香蕉可摘，
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
他们那里的人不吃PowerBar这种零食，而是摘一整串香蕉挂到走廊上，如图所示
When you get really hungry, that's what you eat for energy instead of your power bar, your candy bars. So
饿了要补充能量的时候，他们吃这个而不是PowerBar这类糖果
This really was the lifestyle there
这是那里的生活方式
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
在我看来，当地这种饮食习惯非常健康而且还不仅是食物
It was actually the way that they were eaten, the sequence in the day
还包括他们的吃法以及顺序
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，人们一起吃饭这一事实
and even the patterns in which they ate
这些都有助于健康
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
我开始对此非常感兴趣，想知道一种饮食文化是如何造就健康体质的
And we talk a lot about this idea of survival of the fittest people
我们经常讲适者生存这一概念
But I really started to think what is it mean to have survival of the fittest diet
我开始觉得，这一概念也适用于饮食
These are diets that were handed down generation after generation from grandmother to granddaughter and so on
这些是他们祖祖辈辈传承下来的饮食文化
Because they tasted delicious but also because they kept people healthy
不仅因为美味，还因为健康
And really there's a lot of reason in this
这是非常说得通的
