> In early 1920:ths Robert Faherty made a documentary film about the great
> Inuit hunter Nanook. The film was very popular and Nanook got world
> famous. A few years later he died from starvation.
> I doubt any h/g is fasting by will, but sometimes they have to "fast"
> for too long a time. That is starving, not fasting. Fasting is what
> You do when You have a choice.

True.  And if we assume that periodic starvation was part of h/g life, then
it may follow that we should occasionally fast to simulate this.  That is
assuming, of course, that there are hidden benefits (cleansing) associated
with this starvation period.