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Hunter-Gatherer Lifestyle May be Better for the Heart
Occupational Health and Safety
Hunter-gatherers and forager-horticulturalists who live off the land and grow what they need to survive have lower age-related increases in blood pressure and less risks of atherosclerosis , according to two new studies in the American Heart ...
Hunter-Gatherer Lifestyle Tied to Low Atherosclerosis RiskDoctors Lounge
Hunter-Gatherers, Foragers Have Low Hypertension, Risk of Heart DiseaseScienceBlog.com (blog)
For aging hunter-gatherers, hypertension is rareFuturity: Research News
Examiner.com
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Hunter-Gatherers and Horticulturalist Lifestyle Linked to Lower Blood Pressure ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Study Highlights: , May 21, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Traditional "hunter-gatherer" and "horticulturalist" populations have significantly lower age-related increases in blood pressure and less risks of atherosclerosis than "modernized" ...
Living Off the Land May Protect the HeartMedPage Today

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Amazon Tribe Gives Clues to Heart-Healthy Lifestyles
U.S. News & World Report
FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) -- Investigating indigenous Amazonian or African peoples who still follow a hunter-gatherer or forager-horticulturist lifestyle is giving new insights into how diet and lifestyle affect the heart as humans age.

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Hunter-gatherer lifestyle of our ancestors more heart healthy, study finds
Examiner.com
According to two new studies published May 21, 2012 in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension, hunter-gatherers and forager-horticulturist populations have better heart health than modernized populations. Specifically, the lifestyles of ...

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A New Novel by John Hanson Mitchell: The Last of the Bird People
PR.com (press release)
Mitchell's book is the story of the exodus the Swift River Valley of Massachusetts of a tribe of mixed-race hunter-gatherers and the young anthropologist who first discovers them. Littleton, MA, May 26, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Wilderness House Press ...


 
Kenya's last hunter-gatherers in Coast face extinction
The Star
Most of the Boni people, one of Kenya's last hunter-gather groups and possibly no more than 3000 individuals, were relocated to makeshift camps along the government controlled Hindi-Kiunga road, where they still remain. The forest communities, whose ...


 
Wall Street Journal
Kin and Kindness
Wall Street Journal
By Christopher Boehm Mr. Boehm's data come from his direct observations of primate groups and indigenous populations over many decades, but he traces human behavior back to our Paleolithic past of hunter-gatherers on the African plains.