> Heme iron (animal) is force-assimilated, plant iron >absorption  is ruled
by the body.
no, its just mostly not asimilated, about 98% lost. consquently most of the
3rd world, which relies heavily on plant foods, is anemic.

> Plant vitamin A is carotenes. It's amount varies widely with >the amount
of *fruit* eaten.
since beta-carotene is at max 1/6th utilised, little more than the death
camp scenario can prevail w/o animal sources. the best veetable source is an
order of magnitude less than liver.by the time you eat enormous quantities
of beta-carotene to match, it wil be acting as pro-oxidant.

> vitamin D isn't really a vitamin. It's built in the sunlight. No issue for
paleo people.
as its produced only by UV-B, outside of the tropics and subtropics it is
futile to hope for geting it from the sun. more death-camp stuff.

> But where to look for a marine mammal in the savannah?
i think selenium deficency is an issue almost everywhere.

> Cereals have one limiting amino acid, which limits a pure >cereal protein
to  a usability of 55%, compared to egg (meat >reaches 89%, it has other
limiting  amino acids).
> However this amino acid is plenty in other plants namely
> legumes.
the Tarahumara health status [ie about the worst in the world]highlighted
this. legumes+cereals provides little compensatory value.  as does the
kwashiorkor in africa when children must rely on a pitiful pig-food diet of
maize and legumes.

thus far your diet plan has been a total disaster. the sensible approach is
to do what paleo man actually did..ie eat as much animal foods as possible.
herb can provide extra trace elements.

andrew