On February 15, 2001 11:32 AM, Todd Moody wrote:


> 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.

Here's an article which provides first-hand anecdotal evidence of the merits
of calorie restriction.
http://soilandhealth.org/02healthlibrary/0201hygienlib cat/020105cornaro.htm
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There's quite a lot of interesting material at that site, not all of which
is on the topic of food.
http://soilandhealth.org/

Norm