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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/19/us-faeces-transplants-idUSTRE70I1UT20110119

I did a site search for that word on this site and nothing came up, so I might be the first to bring this up.

I first came to know about that ‘procedure’ from a podcast of the guys that did Freakanomics.

Anyway, my own amateur understanding is that we humans build up a natural ‘protection’ from the place we live and our way of life there. To claim that eating higher levels of fat will ‘kill’ you would have been proven by the fact that over time in history, those Tuolians would not be living there as they would find that they have a high mortality rate.

From another book (I think it was Guns, Germs & Steel) I read that the Australian Aborigines understood the La Nina cycle (extensive drought periods) and over time developed cultural restraints for population control. I think the same book mentioned a Polynesian island that had a primary diet intake of chicken which they knew their production/rearing capacity and induced (forcibly?) population controls.

My hunch is that those Tuolians have certain helpful bacteria in their body that helps them process their meat/dairy heavy diet. These bacteria could have easily transferred over to them from the animals they lived with. I know I’m assuming the bacteria, if they really do exist, came from the reared animals. But this supposition comes from the history of how Edward Jenner found the cure for cowpox, i.e. when he observed that milkmaids had the most blemish-free skins.

I can think of using identical twins that were raised together to separate and one of them living with the Tuolians after a tranpoosion from a Tuolian, and the other twin eating basically what the Tuoli-living twin is eating, but at the twins’ home, to ‘prove’ this supposition.

Cheers and apologies for the laziness to really check out this site in case transpoosion (or its idea) have been mentioned already.

5ryn

However, if you have the stats, studying Xinjiang province in general would be worthwhile. The indigenous Uygur ethnic group is Muslim–no aversion to meat and dairy. Despite living in China, their norms and diet are more central Asian. Lots of mutton, especially. It would have been very pertinent, in any study of Chinese diet, especially looking at meat consumption and health, to analyze this outlier area. If this region was not analyzed, it represents an omission in any study of this type.