On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Phosphor wrote:

> > Well, you now have two studies.
> either i'm confused or your confused. i thought O'dea was not an
> anthropological study but an experiment of sorts. in which case it has
> little immediate bearing on the.

The O'Dea study was an experiment but is relevant to our
discussion because it incorporates a study of the composition of
aborigine diets.  The diabetic urban aborigines lived with the
traditional hunter-gatherer aborigines during the course of the
experiment and ate as they ate.  The scientists recorded and
analyzed what they ate.  In this way they studied the aboriginal
hunter-gatherer diet *and* its effects on diabetic aborigines.

> perhaps we could e-mail the master himself. does anyone have his address?
> he should have at his fingertips all the details of what tribe [more than
> 200 of them] ate what when and where.

Go for it.

> > aborigines got as much as 23% of energy from plant foods.
> what i scorned was that aborigines would have done this by choice. if jack
> comes home with an emu, does he cast it aside a la Amadeus when he sees Jill
> has dug up a kilo of juicy [cyanogen-filled] yams.

Straw man again.  Nobody made any such claim. But we could ask
this: Why does Jill bother digging up yams at all?

Todd Moody
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