On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Don Wiss wrote: > The great challenge for the Aborigine was to obtain enough dietary fat. > They were close observers of nature and knew just when certain animals were > at their fattest. This does not imply, however, that theirs was a high-fat diet; it implies only that fat was scarce. The following comment from Loren Cordain on the Paleodiet Symposium list is relevant: In her classic study of Australian Aborigines temporarily reverting to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, O'Dea (5) showed that animal foods contributed 64 % of the total energy (6). The macronutrient breakdown was 54 % protein, 33% carbohydrate and 13% fat (6). This is actually quite a low-fat diet. Todd Moody [log in to unmask]