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Ep 4. Into the wild: Diet tips from grasshoppers, spider monkeys & the orangutans of Borneo

EAT LIKE THE ANIMALS

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The Power of Protein Leverage

David Wheeler and Erin Mowgal studied orangutans in Borneo. They looked at how the primates responded to changes in their nutritional environment over time. The data showed that some days they would have access to lots of fat and carbohydrate, always ate the same amount of protein. What varied was the fat and carbohydrate with their head on the daily basis? "It's just hard to overstate the significance of that graph actually"

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