Here are some extracts [plus a few comments of mine in square brackets]
from a syndicated journalist in The Scotsman (UK) last Sunday at:
http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2241904
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Sun 30 Nov 2003 1:56pm (UK)
Going Nuts About Stone Age Diet

By Caroline Gammell, PA News

The latest diet fad seized on by hopeful weight-watchers can be traced
back two million years...the Stone Age diet advocates eating the sort of
food which was around before society was civilised and before agriculture
developed.  It encourages the consumption of lean red meat, fruit and
nuts, but forbids pasta, bread and milk.

The diet differs from the hugely popular Atkins Diet because, rather than
allowing followers to eat as much fat as they want, the Palaeolithic style
of eating only permits natural fats such as those found in nuts and fish.

[Nice to see Paleo eating distinguished from the Atkins diet!]

“People should just eat less of this and more of that. But getting the
healthy eating message across is difficult – people do not understand more
or less.  Going to extremes and cutting things out is so much easier, but
it does not equal a balanced diet.”

[This is an astute observation which bears thinking about - how often do
we read people asking on this list: "is such-and-such allowed?" Seeking
comfortable, yes/no, black/white answers where none exist.  On the other
hand, seeing unquestionable virtue in an - unspecified - balanced diet is
where the critics of Paleo eating just don't get it - we revel in diets
that are unbalanced, just as they were in the Pleistocene!]

Researchers in Liverpool have explored the primeval diet...Bread and milk
are generally seen as difficult to digest and according to nutritionists,
humans are the only mammals to drink another mammals’ milk...Many people
believe that our bodies are still not developed enough to digest bread.”

But eating nuts ensures consumption of natural fat, rather than clogging
the body with saturated fat....

“I just believe in a healthy diet. People that carry out life changing
diets are not going to be able to maintain it – they should stick to a
good healthy diet.”  But she was enthusiastic about going back to
basics: “So much food is processed, then there are GM foods – we need to
eat how we are naturally meant to eat.”

In the Stone Age, a large proportion of meat, offal or seafood was
consumed, accounting for 45% to 65% of the daily diet.  There was no set
diet, just what was available depending on the seasons, but beans,
lentils, grains – anything that had to be cooked – were avoided.

.... Critics argue people in the Stone Age did not live as long and so
never got the stage where rheumatoid arthritis or osteoporosis was a
problem.  Fans of the Palaeolithic diet argue that as the diet was
practised during much of human evolution, it is the food that humans were
originally designed to eat...although people in the Stone Age did not live
as long, they were healthier, taller and stronger.
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Keith