Re: Indigenous Knowledge article with Masai info

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> Indigenous Knowledge article with Masai info

>

>>

>> Take the Masai of East Africa, who are famous for the kind of high-fat

>diet,

>> rich in meat and milk, that would make a cardiologist swoon.

>s,

>> a professor at McGill University in Montreal and director of the Center

>for

>> Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment, has long studied the Masai

>to

>> determine how they stay healthy.

>>

How interesting that there's a center (other than the WAPF) dedicated to

studying traditional diets! I googled for their website and found this:

http://www.cine.mcgill.ca/TFood.htm As might be expected they unfortunately

promote the erroneous notion that traditional animal products are lean.

Interesting site, nonetheless.

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>

[Guest guest]

> >

> > But indigenous knowledge can be faulty. " Traditional people

sometimes get

> > things right, and sometimes get them wrong, " said Alan Fiske, a

> > psychological anthropologist at the University of California at

Los

> Angeles.

> > " Some things people do are bad for them. " Other anthropologists

have

> > challenged the notion that all indigenous groups have somehow

developed a

> > blissful oneness with their world.

Curious that they didn't go into any details on HOW ANCIENT the

faulty knowledge might be, nor did they give ANY examples of FAULTY

indigenous knowledge--do you suppose they don't have any?

I love the part where they reason away the Masai high-fat diet by

only focusing on the inclusion of anti-oxidant food stuffs.

Danelle in Kansas