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Ray Audette <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 27 Jul 1998 05:33:23 -0700
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Aaron Sugarman wrote:
da.  Wild meats are about as fatty, percentage wise,
> as lettuce.


The animals hunted by the Cree (found around Hudsons Bay) included moose,
bear, ducks, geese and many other kinds of seabirds,  all very high in
fat.  Moose was the preferred meat for pemmican because of its high fat
level.  As the Cree had a very short growing season, most agricultural
products (such as tobacco and corn) had to be traded for with more
southern tribes. Under these conditions, meat was the staple of the diet.
 When meat is the staple of the diet, at least 50% of calories must come
from fat or ill health results. see: "The Effects of a Twelve Months'
Exclusive Meat Diet" (Journal of the American Medical Association July 6,
1929 pg 20-22).

Trying to generalize about fat consumption based on a few populations of
HGs who have been driven into undesirable areas by civilization in not a
good way to how man fitted into his place with the rest of the
Pleistocene mega-fauna.  Perhaps if you hunted for more of your food, you
would develope a hunters taste for fatty meat.  My own daily excursions
to the grasslands in and around Dallas have taught me much about it takes
to survive in Nature.  Most of the rest that I know can be found in the
bibliography of "NeanderThin" available for free on my website.  In leiu
of reading the book you might check these out at a library.

Ray Audette (of the Quebec Audettes)
Author "NeanderThin:A Caveman's Guide to Nutrition"
http://www.sofdesign.com/neander

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