In a message dated 1/31/03 10:30:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > Now this % "energy" from fat range (47.5% - 67%) simply doesn't jive with > the range Cordain quoted in the paper as 28 - 58%. I guess this is a lon= g > winded way of saying: I don't know. > I wrote Cordain and asked him earlier today. He was kind enough to respond back right away. Here is the explanation: The 28-58 % range represents the macronutrient range for 58 % of=A0hunter gatherer societies from all latitudes (from our AJCN 2000 paper - Table 4 p. 689), whereas the 28-47 % range represents the range when we corrected for latitude.=A0 More northernly hunter-gatherers have no choice but=A0to eat more animal food because of the seasonal availability of plant foods.=A0=A0=A0 Because there was a disproportionate number of hunter gatherer societies living above 40 degrees N latitude than below=A0in the Ethnographic Atlas, it skewed the data.=A0 Hence the 28-47 % range represents=A0the unskewed data.