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for example fruit or nuts like mobola (Parinari) plumbs high in trees (see photos at near the end
of the topic). Of note, however, most San Bushmen are gluten intolerant, namely they have
problems with eating wheat cereals. Walking the veld with Titus we would often stop to eat
berries, monkey oranges, wild fig, other fruit and grass like tuber roots. The fig fruit and tree
life cycle is interesting because when we ate them we would spit out the inner fur like core
because of what we thought were ants. The truth was far more interesting. The “ants” are
actually wingless male wasps that hatch from egg sacs in the fig fruit and then detect females in
growing sacs (that mature later) and break into the female sacs for a roll in the sack. After
fertilizing the females, they break out of the fruit shell, making holes for the females to fly out
through gentleman wasp chivalry opening doors for the ladies. The ladies then fly off carrying
pollen from inside, attached to outer body cavities, to another fig tree and burrow in through
the base of a fig fruit using spade like heads, often loosing wings, to pollinate the internal
flower of the fig and to lay their eggs to start the cycle over again. We often ate Marula fruit
(one inch sized fruit has eight times more Vitamin C than an orange) and Marula nuts, including
on cakes, though the fruit has little resemblance to the liqueur flavor.
Marula Tree
Grasses, tubers, non-poisonous flower buds, and wild onion plants were cooked into a
sauce, sometimes after soaking, for mixing with the staple root foods. This is still something
the Swazi's cook, known as “gusha”, the equivalent in Zulu is called “sheba”. The modern
version is made with onions, tomatoes, broccoli or cauliflower, with some spices like
peppers. A good gusha with maize (pap) combined with venison makes for a great braaivleis,
and it is healthy, especially if with a good South African red wine. Walking for San was
maybe at most an hour twice a day over typically 5 miles, but for modern man 45 minutes a day
five times a week is good exercise and burns some 2,500 calories and is what I recommend to
my patients. Two days of rest allows people to recover and also recover from injury and
muscle and exercise fatigue. A brisk walk is nearly equivalent to running with the less risk of
joint injury. Furthermore, running more than 30 miles a week may be harmful to health. From a
dietary point of view, ask yourself if a San Bushmen would eat the food before you, and if so,
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