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Sean,

I must be thick headed; I just picked up that you were in Australia.
Are you familiar with "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" by Weston
A. Price? He was an American dentist that traveled the world in the
1920's and 30's looking at peoples that were still living the
primitive lifestyle and eating their traditional foods (he found about
a dozen examples). He then found members of the same group (in his non
PC speak of the time he referred to them as races) that had adopted
white mans food (white flour and sugar) and compared their health. One
of the groups he studied extensively was the Australian Aborigine. You
would find the book interesting. In fact I think it is one of the
"must reads" for anyone interested in health.

Chuck

From: "sean mcbride" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Keith and Chuck
>
> Thanks for the comments.  I will try and find that book on walking.
My
> trainer has one evry Queensland bodybuilding title and recently came
second
> in the Masters Olympia.  At 59 he looks fantastic.  He recommends
walking
> but not jogging as he feels it helps you lose muscle as well as fat
and
> doesn't feel that you need it.
>
> As for Aborigines running down food I have only ever read one of one
example
> of an Aborigine chasing a kangaroo for two days and IIRC he wasn't
running
> after it, simply walking.  Although I couldn't see how this would
tire it
> out.  If you run after a kangaroo and stop they will bound ahead a
few
> hundred metres and stop so you would have to keep running for a long
time
> given the distance they can cover in a bound to tire them out.
>
> A friend of mine who went out with a hunter in Africa said that they
tracked
> an animal at a jog all day but I wonder that is not the original
> environment.  Generally food for Aborigines seems to have been
plentiful so
> I wonder whether chasing an animal for days at a time was more the
norm
> post-contact when traditional hunting grounds had been depleted.
> If anyone comes across any instance of Aborigines running after
animals for
> long periods of time I'd be interested to hear about it,
>
> Cheers
>
> Sean

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