RE: FITNESS: Diet and Exercise

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 17:18:18 MDT

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    Damien Sullivan wrote:
     
    > It's worth noting that most surviving H-G cultures were the
    > ones pushed into marginal habitats, ones unusable by farmers
    > or pastoralists.

    Is this a speculation of yours, or are you relating something you learned
    from a reliable scientific source? If the latter then do you have any refs?
    I'd like to see the evidence because if what you're saying is true, studies
    of living HG cultures would be less reliable indicators of the prehistoric
    life-style.

    > If they seem to eat a lot of meat, it might
    > be because of a scarcity of plants.

    I'm skeptical because I don't see how it is possible for wild game to exist
    in habitats where plants are scarce. The bottom of the food chain can exist
    without the top but the top cannot exist without the bottom.

    -gts



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