himsahimsa
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The fact that humans have a system to create unsaturated fats when non are available suggests that a normal, evolutionary, diet would have provided omega 3 and 6 at infrequent intervals with little or none most of the time. That would restrict them to functional locations and keep them out of general circulation and mostly out of storage depot.
I'll bet bushmen average two to five grams a week from seeds and bugs and whatever occurs naturally in the flesh of prey but sometimes near zero for weeks or months when the season turns and the only food around is the odd starchy root and a rat or a rabbit. I'm sure they eat any seeds they can gather that don't taste bad or have a bad reputation. The seeds in berries and fruits would certainly be chewed and swallowed (barring badness). Seasonal. Walking trade could bring dried fish and sea weed.
So, always skimming, slim to none. But when present, always dead fresh with co-occurring factors.
PUFA in dried fish is exposed. Carbon monoxide from smoking might preserve it. Iodine certainly does (from the fresh sea and fresh sea salt).
I'll bet bushmen average two to five grams a week from seeds and bugs and whatever occurs naturally in the flesh of prey but sometimes near zero for weeks or months when the season turns and the only food around is the odd starchy root and a rat or a rabbit. I'm sure they eat any seeds they can gather that don't taste bad or have a bad reputation. The seeds in berries and fruits would certainly be chewed and swallowed (barring badness). Seasonal. Walking trade could bring dried fish and sea weed.
So, always skimming, slim to none. But when present, always dead fresh with co-occurring factors.
PUFA in dried fish is exposed. Carbon monoxide from smoking might preserve it. Iodine certainly does (from the fresh sea and fresh sea salt).