I wrote On Wed, 15 Nov 2000: >If someone whishes to read it I can dig up the source and upload it to >paleolix. Or maybe you can send it to interested ones. >Or is it available at your site? I've uploaded the article to paleolix at http://www.geocities.com/paleolix/ (first link). "orang.zip" is 1.2 mb. It's a zip containing of hardcopy files with the article mentioned. If you are interested in Orang Utan Diet and how they get into ketosis. >A quick summary: >It describes very thoroughly the diet of orangs throught the year. >Orangutans eat a diet very high in carbohydrates. > >Some of the fruit they consume is rich in fat too. >In this way they aquire more quickly calories as from carbs only. > >Then there's a season, which is low on fruit, therefore low on food >and the orangs are low on food >(that's the season Gombe chimps eat other monkey's babies). > >Then they get thinner, burning the fat they aquired before. >The amount of starving (and fat burning) was measured by taking urin >probes of the orangs. >When it contains ketones, it indicates starving mode. >Ketones come when fat is metabolized, together with protein in absence of >sufficient carbohydrates. >Absence of carbohydrates is the (only) reason why proteins are metabolized >to energy, to gain rain/nerve/blood-cell energy. > > regards, Amadeus