This is a Maasai Warrior

What this guy eats would score a FAILING grade on the FDA’s suggested diet. Eating roughly 6 lbs of raw meat per day as well as some milk and blood. The Maasai aren’t huge athletes, particularly in their old age, but they are healthy healthy healthy. No tooth cavities, 2/600 could have a remote chance of heart disease with no change in that ratio with age. So they must be some kind of genetic freaks right? Well it turns out that the Maasai that move to Nairobi (exposing themselves to a more “civilized” diet) have the same obesity issues as everyone else. So when an observation doesn’t match the theory shouldn’t we investigate it? Here’s more about the Maasai from a TED talk done by Nina Teicholz, whom I learned all this from: