Originally Posted by Zei

Since humans require a proportion of energy (fat or carbs) with their protein to avoid becoming ill from too much lone protein (think rabbit starvation) the writer believed the plant-gathering contributions of Native American women of the plains while men hunted meat would have made an essential dietary contribution to balance out the relatively lean protein to energy ratio with some starch. Not a problem nowadays with most "hunting" and "gathering" in grocery store aisles where animal meat, fat and organs are available in whatever proportions one might want.