Ethiopian Runners

From this, he concluded that there was nothing that could be identified genetically as East African. | Dr. Pitsiladis has spent years trying to identify why Ethiopian runners from the mountain region are so successful. | He began by taking DNA samples but found that they all had a very different genetic make-up | He tested those children and found that their bodies processed oxygen more efficiently than many adult elite athletes in Britain. | So he then looked at the East African way of life and found that as Children, 68 percent of all top Ethiopian or Kenyan runners ran, rather than walked, to school and back home, from the age of five onwards.