Thanks for the link on Neanderthals and dairy. I wish I could eat dairy without feeling badl.
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
>
> Actually there are several cultures that live off primarily milk: and the
> Masai drink more milk than they eat blood. Milk is an exception though, in
> that it's purpose is to nourish an animal that is ONLY drinking milk, so it
> is a very complete food. Milk also has lactoferrin, so it might make
> drinking blood safer.
>
> The Masai also apparently eat a LOT of fat, as do the Inuit, and I'm
> guessing that in the circumstance where there is more fat than the body can
> use right away, some of it isn't absorbed and so that will create the needed
> butyrate. When you eat too many carbs, your body pretty much tries to absorb
> all of them anyway, but that might not be true of fat (excess fat in stools
> is pretty common).
>
> However, milk isn't "low carb" either, so if someone is avoiding salads
> because of carbs, they probably wouldn't be drinking milk either. I don't
> know how much butter you'd have to eat every day before enough of it becomes
> butyrate either.
>
> I also think the milk/blood thing is over-stressed. First, today their diet
> has changed a lot, and in the past, the scientists have often done a poor
> job of truly documenting a diet, focusing on the most visible foods (which
> are often just the ones the tribe wants to talk about). Fecal samples are a
> better measure of what people eat, and in most of those, non-farming people
> eat a wide variety of foods. But the Masai do eat other foods:
>
> -------------------------
> So far, the research team has identified some 25 plant products used by the
> Maasai Among them are latex from the Ficus tree and roots and barks of
> various plants which are chewed to alleviate thirst. A second plant gum,
> which may have hypolipidemic (serum cholesterol-lowering) properties, is
> produced by a species related to the myrrh plant. Myrrh has been valued
> since biblical times for its medicinal properties.
>
> Another source of antioxidants is *Acacia nilotica, *whose bark the Maasai
> use to flavour their meat soups and milk. Some crude acacia extracts seem to
> have stronger antioxidant properties than either vitamin C or vitamin E —
> the most popular antioxidants sold in the North.
>
> http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-5545-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
> -------------------------
>
> Drinking milk though is one of those things where genes make a difference.
> Some portion of the population today has ancestors who did rely a lot on
> milk, and likely those people can live off it pretty well. There is a
> fascinating look at this:
>
> http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/12/of-neanderthals-and-dairy-farmers/
> <http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/12/of-neanderthals-and-dairy-farmers/>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:30 AM, carolyn_graff <zgraff@...> wrote:
>
> > what about the Masai people in Africa eating only meat, blood and milk? no
> > veggies.
> >
> > http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/foods26.php
> >
> > --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@> wrote:
> > >
> > > The BAS contains polysaccarides. Polysaccarides are "sort of" digestible
> > ...
> > > that is, your body doesn't actually use them directly, but they feed the
> > > bacteria in your lower gut. Those bacteria produce butyrate which does 2
> > > things: 1) Kills colon cancer cells and 2) Nourishes the gut cells (they
> > > prefer butyrate for fuel).
> > >
> > > The only way to get butyrate to the lower gut is to eat polysaccharides.
> > It
> > > *can* be produced from fat, notably butter, but normally the fat is
> > absorbed
> > > before it gets to the lower gut. And if you eat butyrate ... it's in some
> > > foods, but it stinks ... then it gets absorbed in the upper gut and
> > doesn't
> > > reach the colon.
> > >
> > ---
> > l
>
No comments:
Post a Comment