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Sarita
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Posted 1/4/2006 11:54 AM (GMT -7)
Just heard that Des is an Italiana...how about the rest of you?

I'm half Latvian Jew (my dad is a first-generation American).  My mother is Italian and Swedish.  Yup, I've got a schnozz from both sides :-)

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dbab
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Posted 1/4/2006 11:59 AM (GMT -7)
I actually have Irish also from my father's side. He is half and half so that makes...

3/4 Italian
1/4 Irish

add a sprinkle of honey and you got .... ME ( LOLOLOL)

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7Lil
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Posted 1/4/2006 12:03 PM (GMT -7)

I'm 3/4 Italian and 1/4 Russian (I have some Spanish in there too).... But I'm Brazilian.  Was born in Sâo Paulo.

Does that make sense?   tongue


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CathyA
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Posted 1/4/2006 3:38 PM (GMT -7)
scot/irish and swedish
Hubby is Hungarian....so the kids have quite a mix!
I wonder which ethnicities have the higher incidence of IBS? I'm not sure, but I'll bet type O blood does!
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7Lil
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Posted 1/4/2006 3:51 PM (GMT -7)
I'm A- and we're (all A's) supposed to have a hard time digesting red meat.
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CathyA
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Posted 1/4/2006 6:35 PM (GMT -7)
Oh......I was thinking that those with IBS probably had more problems with grains.....but I hadn't thought of the red meat......something we O's are probably good at digesting! (if you believe in the paleo-type diet notion). Maybe IBS is a non-discriminator!
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blondie15
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Posted 1/4/2006 7:55 PM (GMT -7)
Hey! Im half Ukrainian, a fourth German, and the rest is a mix of Irish, Scottish, and Polish! Hahah im a total mutt! Im O+ blood...and I have the least problem digesting meat but if I eat a bunch of bread its a lil funky! hahaha yeah but im pretty sure IBS doesnt care what you are good at digesting! it just attacks whatever! haha
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Keriamon
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Posted 1/5/2006 10:40 AM (GMT -7)
My Dad's dad's side is English. My Dad's mother's side is questionable--probably also English--although my grandmother swears there's a bit of Indian in there somewhere. My mother's father's side is Cherokee and something unknown (not sure where my grandfather's grandfather came from or went to--they joke about him being on the run with an assumed name) and something Scottish (although to get to Scotland you have to go back before the Revolutionary War). So I guess I'm mostly watered-down English. I'm light-haired and fair-skinned but have very dark brown eyes, don't burn easily, have almost no freckles on my nose and none anywhere else and have a strong chin (something I noticed a lot of English people lack, no offense). I guess I ended up with the best of both worlds. Except the gall bladder thing. My surgeon said that gall bladder disease was especially prevelant among Native Americans and their mixed descendants.
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Peppertree
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Posted 1/5/2006 11:25 AM (GMT -7)
Hey,
Im Native American Indian:) and IBS-D doesnt discriminate, can strike anyone, anywhere, of any race, color or orgin. No one else in my family has it, or has had it as far as i can find out.
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bunnybabe
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Posted 1/5/2006 12:20 PM (GMT -7)
i am A- and Polish and Irish, and more Polish...
i was told the Irish have the market cornered on Celiac...

--bunny
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Keriamon
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Posted 1/5/2006 1:38 PM (GMT -7)
Irish people disposed to be allergic to the grains that make up beer??? Or maybe a good dose of alcohol cures all ills?

Now there's a question. Alcohol kills some (although not all) germs. So if you drink it--and I guess it depends on how far it gets before it's totally absorbed into the bloodstream--could it kill germs that you have injested? Can it kill bacterias? Sugar alcohol can kill bacteria.
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Rene'
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Posted 1/5/2006 1:58 PM (GMT -7)
Hi,

I don't normally post here because I have Fibromyalgia on top of the IBS so I usually post there, but I love to talk about my heritage so I decided to chime in. I am Native American, French or Irish and West Indian and that is just on my dad's side. Native American on my mom's.


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7Lil
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Posted 1/5/2006 2:01 PM (GMT -7)
Thanks for participating, Rene'. You are always welcome. :-)
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Rene'
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Posted 1/5/2006 2:04 PM (GMT -7)
7Lil,

Thank you, I will be back.

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m&ms
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Posted 1/5/2006 4:17 PM (GMT -7)
I am Irish/German on my Mom's side and German/English on Dad's. My Maiden name is supposed to be Jewish in the way it is spelled, but who knows. I am also A-!!!
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7Lil
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Posted 1/5/2006 4:19 PM (GMT -7)
Wow, another A-. I thought it was super rare. Maybe GI problems are common to us. ???
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dbab
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Posted 1/5/2006 9:21 PM (GMT -7)
I'm A+ (another A)

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pb4
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Posted 1/6/2006 1:17 PM (GMT -7)
Both my parents were born in Hungary so my blood line is 100% Hungarian regardless of the fact that I was born in Canada...all my relatives on both parents side are Hungarian as far back as Hungarians go.

I have crohns disease and suspected by my GI as also having IBS, my mom has ulcertive colitis and one of my sisters was just DX with also having IBS-C alternating-D. I'm lactose intolerant as well, and many of my neices are too.

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