An American friend of mine now lives in Tanzania, and in fact just 
brought me a beautiful beaded necklace she purchased from one of the 
Masai women who now make and sell jewelry on the street in front of 
her house there.

She tells me that the Masai, like most people in Africa, have had to 
adjust/degrade their diet because of harsh economic conditions in 
recent decades.

It's so creepy... she employed some young men, including Masai, to do 
work around her house. She fed them lunch every day, including local 
"high protein foods" such as peanut butter (!) and she said in a 
matter of days she could see them developing muscles on their skinny 
frames. So sad.

Tina

At 5:03 PM +0100 05,17,2010, Geoffrey Purcell wrote:
>
>Yes, a while back, I read some similiar info on the Masai which 
>contradicted the WAPF-derived claims of Masai supposedly  living on 
>a low-carb diet. It's full of grains. Didn't know just how high the 
>veg-intake was, though. Interesting.
>
>Geoff
>
>
>>  Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 11:30:48 -0400
>>  From: [log in to unmask]
>>  Subject: Maasai Diet Reported Wrong?
>>  To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>>  Found this in my
>> 
>>Eurekalert<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-05/fj-npb051710.php>this
>>  morning.   It talks about the Maasai diet having been wrongly
>>  reported,
>>  re mostly meat, milk, and blood.  According to this, there's a lot of
>>  porridge and stuff, too.
>>
>>  Hmmm.
>>
>>  Ro
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