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<blockquote data-quote="Miss_Dior" data-source="post: 860415" data-attributes="member: 181785"><p>Another thought about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohono_O%27odham_people" target="_blank">Tohono O'odham people</a>*. Their traditional diet is very low in fat. And they were quite active, desert adapted people. Taubes stated in his book that anthropologists did not note a high level of activity. My response to that is the anthropologists he is quoting saw them in the 1890s, when they were defeated, depressed and living on government rations. They were NOT living their traditional lifestyle. I invite anyone to visit the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoran_Desert" target="_blank">Sonoran Desert,</a> imagine what it was like to farm there, and conclude that these people were not getting loads of exercise. They just didn't run around the place looking for it. Anthropologists have been known to get things badly wrong. </p><p></p><p>This is just an observation, but I wonder whether a people who adapted nicely to an extremely low-fat diet have problems metabolizing fat. Especially in the context of a lard-white flour diet. Going from an active lifestyle, eating healthy fruits and vegetables and grains (nixtamalized maize) to government ration slop? No wonder they became diabetic!</p><p></p><p>*I'm the last person in the world to be politically correct, but I think people should be called by the name that they choose. Pima is an outmoded word that the Spaniards stuck on them. They call themselves the Tohono O'odham (pronounced oh-oh-tham). Being gracious people they don't mind if you refer to them as "T.O."s. I'm getting off my soapbox now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Miss_Dior, post: 860415, member: 181785"] Another thought about the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohono_O%27odham_people']Tohono O'odham people[/URL]*. Their traditional diet is very low in fat. And they were quite active, desert adapted people. Taubes stated in his book that anthropologists did not note a high level of activity. My response to that is the anthropologists he is quoting saw them in the 1890s, when they were defeated, depressed and living on government rations. They were NOT living their traditional lifestyle. I invite anyone to visit the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoran_Desert']Sonoran Desert,[/URL] imagine what it was like to farm there, and conclude that these people were not getting loads of exercise. They just didn't run around the place looking for it. Anthropologists have been known to get things badly wrong. This is just an observation, but I wonder whether a people who adapted nicely to an extremely low-fat diet have problems metabolizing fat. Especially in the context of a lard-white flour diet. Going from an active lifestyle, eating healthy fruits and vegetables and grains (nixtamalized maize) to government ration slop? No wonder they became diabetic! *I'm the last person in the world to be politically correct, but I think people should be called by the name that they choose. Pima is an outmoded word that the Spaniards stuck on them. They call themselves the Tohono O'odham (pronounced oh-oh-tham). Being gracious people they don't mind if you refer to them as "T.O."s. I'm getting off my soapbox now. [/QUOTE]
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