RE: Meal frequency in primitive societies

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do a search on the thread for teh Warrior diet you will find ALOT of

information on that very question you just asked

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From: preciousspark33 [mailto:preciousspark33@...]

Sent: Monday, 8 March 2004 11:31 AM

Subject: Meal frequency in primitive societies

Does anyone know how often primitive peoples ate? I doubt they subscribed

to the 3-

meals-a-day pattern, but I haven't been able to find any concrete

information. My guess

is that they ate bigger meals, less often. Does anyone know for sure?

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--- Byron <anthony.byron@...>

wrote: > do a search on the thread for teh Warrior

diet you

> will find ALOT of

> information on that very question you just asked

>

Now I pity the person that asked the question....

have you ever tried searching the archives for Warrior

Diet? There will be thousands of posts with Warrior

Diet from the last 2-3 months alone. Most of which

will have no bearing on the question. And a great

many of them will be off topic as well.

Which goes back to the issue of how useful this list

is when most of the posts are about politics, not

Nourishing Traditions.

Jo

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yes very true.

http://www.warriordiet.com/

that is a good place to start. It seems to be that mostly during the day

primitive societies foraged little bits of food here and there ( no set

routine )

then somewhere around dusk had theri big meal of the day ( though ive since

foudn otehr cultures that woudl have the big meal at lunch or breakfast )

either way it seems to be 1 major meal during the day along with tiny

snacking to stave off hunger

there was a papua new guinee article on TV recently where durign the day all

they ate was a mouthfull of nut paste whenever they felt hungry

collected all the major food items during the day and feasted at night by

camp fire

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From: Joanne Pollack [mailto:jopollack2001@...]

Sent: Monday, 8 March 2004 9:12 PM

Subject: RE: Meal frequency in primitive societies

--- Byron <anthony.byron@...>

wrote: > do a search on the thread for teh Warrior

diet you

> will find ALOT of

> information on that very question you just asked

>

Now I pity the person that asked the question....

have you ever tried searching the archives for Warrior

Diet? There will be thousands of posts with Warrior

Diet from the last 2-3 months alone. Most of which

will have no bearing on the question. And a great

many of them will be off topic as well.

Which goes back to the issue of how useful this list

is when most of the posts are about politics, not

Nourishing Traditions.

Jo

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>either way it seems to be 1 major meal during the day along with tiny

>snacking to stave off hunger

>there was a papua new guinee article on TV recently where durign the day all

>they ate was a mouthfull of nut paste whenever they felt hungry

>collected all the major food items during the day and feasted at night by

>camp fire

>

>

Whenever I've read accounts of primative societies or even

pioneer societies here, that does seem to be the norm. When it

comes to cooking over an open fire, it's not something you

just do at the spur of the moment ... and some of the cooking

methods take hours. And of course you are spending the

day gathering food or taking care of crops.

Some of the cultures had flatbread of some kind for

breakfast though (of course, the ones with grains aren't

really hunter-gatherers!)

-- Heidi

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In a message dated 3/8/04 6:12:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,

jopollack2001@... writes:

> Now I pity the person that asked the question....

> have you ever tried searching the archives for Warrior

> Diet? There will be thousands of posts with Warrior

> Diet from the last 2-3 months alone. Most of which

> will have no bearing on the question. And a great

> many of them will be off topic as well.

More importantly, I don't recall any of us with any conclusive data on the

subject. Some examples have come up, but none that I recall about truly

*primitive* societies, like the one's Price studied.

>

> Which goes back to the issue of how useful this list

> is when most of the posts are about politics, not

> Nourishing Traditions.

>

I don't think you'll find many political posts about the Warrior Diet, so I

don't see why it would affect the ability to do a good search on it. If

would put in an inhibitory keyword function, the POLITICS tag would work

great, so you could search for posts that contain " Warrior " and " Diet " but do

NOT

contain " POLITICS, " were it relevant.

Chris