On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Dennis Lawler wrote:

> Well, I don't want to be siding with Amadeus here but I was in Kenya just
> this last December and talked personally with a couple of the Maasai on the
> Mara reserve.  They consume a moderate amount of fruit regularly with their
> milk and blood.
>
> Meat is eaten, but doesn't make up as large a percentage of the diet as you
> might have heard.  They claimed they only ate it maybe once or twice a week,
> and often much less frequently.  No vegetables though.

Another point, according to what I have read, is that their
overal caloric intake is rather low.

Something that we don't talk much about here is that a diet of X
foods in certain ratios can produce very different metabolic
effects depending on overall energy balance.

Todd Moody
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