Another nomadic population eating the same diet as the Masai and Samburu, the Anagamba of eastern Niger, also had low blood cholesterol concentrations despite eating a diet comprising 73 per cent fat.70 Interestingly, and seemingly forgotten, the Anagamba’s blood cholesterol concentrations were no higher than those of the Kanouri, who ate an LFHC diet of millet and sorghum, and deriving just 9 per cent of calories from fat.
