Fig. 3.

Proportion of individuals below 90 % of reference population in weight-for-height, an indicator of short term nutritional status. Our sample is compared to Nestel’s (1986) study of Maasai in Kenya and McCabe et al.’s (1989, 1992) study of a Maasai group in Tanzania. (Nestel’s (1986) anthropometry data were collected every two months over the course of a year and then averaged to get an annual mean. McCabe’s data were collected in June and July 1989 and our data were collected in May and June 2000. We did not account for the potential effects of seasonality or of summed data in the analysis.)