Re: bee hives & hunter-gatherers

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I guess even primitive peoples can develop a sweet tooth!

bee hives & hunter-gatherers

In one of the many books I've been reading, not sure which one, an

anthropologist is interviewing a hunter-gatherer about his favorite

foods. He says " meat and honey " and he said he had 3 cups of honey a

day. The anthropologist noted that the hunter had black teeth. I don't

recall which part of the world this was in. I think this was in the

book " Sweetness and Power " but I'm not sure....

I read a little about beekeeping, in " A Language Before Words " -- I

mentioned on this list before... the author is a bee keeper, but only

a small part of the book is about bee keeping... his main topic is

ecology... it's an excellent book.

- T

> Maybe harvesting honey wasn't common with so many survival things to

worry about, why stick your hand in a mess of bees :-) (of course

that's just conjecture!)

>

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mcpherson.bg@... wrote:

> I guess even primitive peoples can develop a sweet tooth!

Not just people :-))

The elephants in Africa tend to get drunk on naturally fermented

Marula berries :-)))

And my Siberian Husky dog loved her blackberries. She'd run 2 miles to

where the big brambly bush was on the farm, and I'd find her there

making little ouch! sounds as her nose got pricked trying to get to a

good looking berry - but she would eat them regardless, complaining of

the pricks all the while :-)

Cats also have a sweet tooth. My Minerva would take any medicine if I

told her first that there was sweetened condensed milk to follow. It is

quite standard to pill cats by offering karo syrup before and after the

pill.

A liking for sugar is a constitutional thing not a species thing. Those

of a particular constitutional type in any species, (at least the

warm-blooded ones) will have a sweet tooth :-) Perhaps because it is a

quick way to get warming energy in emergency?

Namaste,

Irene

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In a message dated 9/22/2004 4:06:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

furryboots@... writes:

Perhaps because it is a

quick way to get warming energy in emergency?

Oh, I think so. Ready energy with almost no processing by the body to " get

to " the fuel burning. The modern human problem, of course, is that we eat

carbs and immediately trek down the hallway and to the couch to watch people

exercise on TV.