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