PALEOFOOD Archives

Paleolithic Eating Support List

PALEOFOOD@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG

Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Amadeus Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Paleolithic Eating Support List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 11 Jul 2002 07:59:56 -0500
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (176 lines)
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:46:26 +1000, Phosphor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> first, flax oil tastes great.
>so does coke.

I disagree.

>> second, flax oil is perfectely edible for humans.
>no, its completely inedible - meaning, it *can't* be eaten. to prove this,
i
>suggest you try..to eat one...w/o a neolithic press. just crush one or two
>with a stone. go on...betchya can't do it.

Read above: oil. Edible perfectely.
Similarly flax seeds, easy to use your teeth.
Perfectely edible. Somehow after some time I get tired eating them.
Maybe because of the lignans. The body seems to know when to eat them.

>> third, flax is one of the only two sources of fat in such medium >cool
>places like middle europe (the other is hemp)
>ho ho ho. you forgot about animals.

I didn't. I mentioned the hibernating animals in autumn.
Might be bears and groundhogs.
Try to hunt your animal fat in a climate like the Munich area.
Dears , boars, rabbits are very lean.
Bears or beavers are (were) few. Groundhogs in the mountains only.
What would you hunt all year round?
Since people are frequent here, since celtic or roman times that left
flax, hemp and pigs as a fat source. The latter two only agricultural.


>> fourth, flax has many thousands of years of proven use.
>yes, as a source of linen. never as food.

Oh, how did you find out?
They grew fields of linen and let rot the magnificent seed?
Be shure they were eaten.
If you examine neolithic nutrition which was dominated by 90% of
lentils, barley, "wheat", plus a little milk and little sheep and goat
you come to the decision that it's a little on the omega-6 side.
A little flax is *necessary* to constitute a healthy neolithical nutrition.
I think it's not by accident that the real boost in spreading the
neolithical way of life came shortly after cultivation of flax.
(from 6000 bc in the orient to 4400 bc in middle europe).

Earlier neolithic cultures were somewhat dependant on wild game as a omega-3
source (thit is my own interpretation).
You can find the remains of gazelle-mass-slaughtering buildings in
early neolithic settlements of some 9000bc.
Flax made the gazelles dispensable. And the way of life could spread to
Europe.

>since its your turn...do it. give me your menu. I'm waiting.

Is this your way to meet my challenge? Just waiting?

Just to deny you this chance, here's an example combination:

I use a nutrition program which of course hasn't original AA items.
So I replace them with the modern counterparts as follows:
Acacia seeds (protein 23+-5): chickpeas (protein 20, the arelegumes as well)
fruit                       : apples
nuts: macadamia

I think this is reasonable as the wild items would be even more nutritions
in vitamins and protein.
I left out the "other seeds" which were eaten by AA because it's to
difficult to find and work with a undisputed modern counterpart.
I even included a little meat because I think they ate a little meat as
available as a addition.

Enjoy

Amadeus


Results:
=====================================================================
Analysis of the diet plan
=====================================================================
Food Amount Energy
Yams fresh 1000 g  1013,4 kcal
Apple fresh 500 g   259,3 kcal
Chickpeas fresh 300 g   424,5 kcal
Macadamia nut fresh 100 g   676,1 kcal
Guinea-fowl, meat with skin fresh 50 g    73,1 kcal

Meal analysis:  2446,5 kcal ( 100 %)  Carbohydrate: 344,9 g ( 100 %)


=====================================================================
Result
=====================================================================
Nutrient analysed recommended percentage
      value value/day fulfillment
_____________________________________________________________
energy    2446,5 kcal    1958,6 kcal   125 %
protein      61,8  g(10%)      57,8  g(12 %)    107 %
carbohydr.     344,9  g(58%)     279,6  g(> 55 %)    123 %
magnesium     531,0 mg     300,0 mg   177 %
iron      20,4 mg      15,0 mg   136 %
zinc       9,7 mg       7,0 mg   138 %
niacine      19,2 mg - -
Vit. B6       2,8 mg       1,2 mg   232 %
Vit. B2       1,0 mg       1,2 mg    87 %
Vit. B1       2,3 mg       1,0 mg   227 %
tot. fol.acid     418,0 µg     400,0 µg   105 %
biotine      41,0 µg      45,0 µg    91 %
potassium    5284,0 mg    3500,0 mg   151 %
Vit. A     419,0 µg     800,0 µg    52 %
Vit. C     235,0 mg     100,0 mg   235 %
Vit. E      12,1 mg - -
calcium     515,5 mg    1000,0 mg    52 %
phosphorus    1055,0 mg     700,0 mg   151 %
manganese      10,8 mg       3,5 mg   309 %
fat      88,1  g(32%)      66,4  g(< 30 %)    133 %
copper       3,6 mg       1,3 mg   287 %
pantoth. acid       6,8 mg       6,0 mg   113 %

So far.. no problem in this combination.
If you vary the proportions of any item while staying at about 2400 kcal
you'll not find much difference.

Except for the meat.
Increasing it can become dangerous.
Leaving it out doesn't make much difference.
It's just a low energy food item not contributing much but
eaten just because anthing available will have been eaten.


Analysis of the diet plan w/o the meat:
=====================================================================
Food Amount Energy
________________________________________________________________________

Yams fresh 1000 g  1013,4 kcal
Apple fresh 500 g   259,3 kcal
Chickpeas fresh 300 g   424,5 kcal
Macadamia nut fresh 100 g   676,1 kcal
Guinea-fowl, meat with skin fresh 0 g     0,0 kcal

Meal analysis:  2373,3 kcal ( 100 %)  Carbohydrate: 344,9 g ( 100 %)


=====================================================================
Result
=====================================================================
Nutrient analysed recommended percentage
      value value/day fulfillment
_____________________________________________
energy    2373,3 kcal    1958,6 kcal   121 %
protein      51,7  g(9%)      57,8  g(12 %)     89 %
carbohydr.     344,9  g(59%)     279,6  g(> 55 %)    123 %
magnesium     516,0 mg     300,0 mg   172 %
iron      19,6 mg      15,0 mg   131 %
zinc       9,1 mg       7,0 mg   130 %
niacine      15,7 mg - -
Vit. B6       2,6 mg       1,2 mg   217 %
Vit. B2       1,0 mg       1,2 mg    80 %
Vit. B1       2,2 mg       1,0 mg   223 %
tot. fol.acid     414,0 µg     400,0 µg   104 %
biotine      40,0 µg      45,0 µg    89 %
potassium    5109,0 mg    3500,0 mg   146 %
Vit. A     414,0 µg     800,0 µg    52 %
Vit. C     235,0 mg     100,0 mg   235 %
Vit. E      12,0 mg - -
calcium     510,0 mg    1000,0 mg    51 %
phosphorus     965,0 mg     700,0 mg   138 %
manganese      10,8 mg       3,5 mg   308 %

fat      84,4  g(32%)      66,4  g(< 30 %)    127 %
copper       3,5 mg       1,3 mg   279 %
pantoth. acid       6,3 mg       6,0 mg   105 %
........

ATOM RSS1 RSS2