I get that its more efficient to eat from the top down.  However, any documentary I've ever watched about the few hunter gatherer tribes still remaining, i.e.:  !Kung Bushman,  Australian Aborogines, Inuit, Brazilian Rain Forest Tree dwellers (sorry, can't remember their exact name), all were masters at knowing hundreds of sources of foodstuffs that grew near and far in addition to their game.   They knew an exact location of an obsure bush that they let their pregnant women eat, etc.  Or the berry of a tree that cured stomach ailments...yada yada yada.  So, I guess I'm wondering if we are supposed to mimic  hunter/gatherers, why do  some here only promote meat/fat?   Why do we surmise about the diets of dead hunter/gatherers when there are living tribes we can learn from?   Even the Inuit, and the Pacific Northwest tribes stuff themselves with berries, sorrel, and other seasonal offerings, even if the majority of their fare is
 meat/fat/fish/blubber for most of the year.  

Okay, don't mean to stir up controversy, but this has been perplexing me for awhile.

Back out to the garden to forage some lettuce.....

Batsheva


 



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From: william <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Mon, June 28, 2010 11:22:32 AM
Subject: Re: Seasonal Ketosis

Batsheva wrote:
  Wouldn't a hunter/gatherer
> living in North America  be in "hog heaven" right now with the
> abundance of fruits/berries, leafy greens, tubers, etc  that would
> allow him/her to put on the necessary fat to get through the slim
> pickings of winter?
> 

They stuffed themselves with pemmican all winter. La dolce vita.
Their food ate fruits/berries, leafy greens, tubers, etc.
So does mine.

William