@Paul. The Hadza diet is primarily carbohydrate. Atkins was wrong. His theory was total garbage, all metabolic ward studies prove that weight is a factor of calories in, calories out.

@Neoneocon: Re: obesity rates among the Hadza – read the original study. A table gives their weight. They are skinny as hell.

Also, about anthro class and the ‘leisure society’ of hunter-gatherers – this is an exaggerated claim. It’s true of some groups and not of others.

But this study is an eye-opener.

No. They. Do. Not.

For some people, yes, but not for others. Like me, for example.

Yes, speaking of which, you might have been following this story, but not realized that the Hadza were one of the population groups included.

http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2012/07/new-evidence-for-archaic-admixture-in.html

http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2012/08/gilbert-on-erectus-klein-on-sapiens.html

As I was completely unfamiliar with them I went to Wiki, and what I read of their oral tradition left me blankly staring at the screen for some moments as I tried to calculate whether it was completely absurd to think that some kind of event tradition, or oral memory could possibly … well, I concluded that it was absurd.

I have no family tradition memorializing Neanderthals. I guess.

Also, perhaps less relevantly, since it may not be the same population showing Archaic Human admixture, http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.0020105

“While the putative source population may not be as obvious as in Europe (Neanderthals), the fossil record shows that transitional forms of Homo were widespread in Africa, even after the time of emergence of modern humans. Other genetic studies have also found evidence for ancient structure in African populations [28—30]. In two of the three studies [28,30], the divergent lineage was found only in Pygmies, which suggests that the African population source differs from the European one.”

“[17] And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife,
and have eaten of the tree
of which I commanded you,
`You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
[18] thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.
[19] In the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.”

So do muscles.

I bet that hunter gatherers are more physically active than I am.