On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Don Wiss wrote:
> The great challenge for the Aborigine was to obtain enough dietary fat.
> They were close observers of nature and knew just when certain animals were
> at their fattest.
This does not imply, however, that theirs was a high-fat diet; it
implies only that fat was scarce. The following comment from
Loren Cordain on the Paleodiet Symposium list is relevant:
In her classic study of Australian Aborigines temporarily
reverting to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, O'Dea (5)
showed that animal foods contributed 64 % of the total
energy (6). The macronutrient breakdown was 54 %
protein, 33% carbohydrate and 13% fat (6).
This is actually quite a low-fat diet.
Todd Moody
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