Re: question about Masai milk consumption

[Guest guest]

I'm pretty sure an adult male in the Masai tribe would drink at least

2 gallons a day average...I might have even read 2 1/2 and the milk

was extra rich and had more calories from fat.

To really mimic the Masai diet you would have to drink some blood

occasionally as well...

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> Hi,

>

> I was having a discussion over on hatrack.com about a guy who had

> drunk 2 gallons of (store-bought, pasteurized/homogenized) milk a day

> for 2 weeks. I was using the Masai as an example of a group that

> drank a lot of milk, but I said a half-gallon a day, to avoid

> exaggerating. I know it's more, if I recall, but how much? Does

> anyone know? To be clear, I was not shilling for what this guy did.

>

> mike

>

[Guest guest]

Does anyone have a reference for this?

mike

>

> I'm pretty sure an adult male in the Masai tribe would drink at least

> 2 gallons a day average..

> >

>

[Guest guest]

>

> Does anyone have a reference for this?

>

The Masai tribe in Africa subsist largely on whole milk, blood and beef. Yet

their cholesterol

is among the lowest ever measured in the world, and about 50% of the average

Americans'

(Lapiccirella V., and others. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1962;27:

681-697.)

K.

[Guest guest]

Forgot to mention, there are many other peoples around the world with high

saturated fat

consumption and low cholesterol:

People in Northern India consume 17 times more animal fat than those in Southern

India

but have an incidence of CHD seven times lower (Malhotra S. Indian Journal of

Industrial

Medicine. 1968;14:219)

A study comparing Jews living in Yemen whose diets consisted of fats solely from

animal

origin, to Yeminite Jews living in Israel, whose diets contained margarine and

vegetable

oils, revealed little heart disease or diabetes in the former group but high

levels of both

diseases in the latter (Cohen A. Am Heart J. 1963;65:291)

Several Mediterranean societies have low rates of heart disease even though fat

- including

highly saturated fat from lamb, sausage and goat cheese - comprises up to 70% of

their

caloric intake (Willett WC, et al. Am J Clin Nutr. June 1995;61(6S):1402S -

1406S; -

Llamas F, et al. J Hum Nutr Diet. Dec 1996;9:6:463-471; Alberti-Fidanz A, et al.

Eur J Clin

Nutr. Feb 1994;48:2:85-91)

In the Gascony region of France, where goose and duck liver form a staple of the

diet,

rates of CHD are as low as 80 per 100,000 (compared to 315 of 100,000 in the US)

(O'Neill

M. NY Times. Nov 17, 1991)

The life span of the Japanese has increased since WWII with an increase of

animal fat and

protein in the diet (Koga Y. Lessons for Science from the Seven Countries Study,

H

Toshima, et al, eds, Springer, New York, NY, 1994, 63-74)

Chris

[Guest guest]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en & q=masai+quarts+milk & btnG=Search

That's a lot of liquid, but they probably need it because of the hot

weather. I also read somewhere last year, that the Masai warriors eat

1 to 1.5lb of butter daily, during certain times of the year.