On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 07:03 Tim Rowell wrote:

>I like this concept.  What does your typical
>'nut-based' meal consist of?

My meals concede little to modern western concepts of dining - I don't eat
from a plate; I rarely eat at a table; the sheer volume is huge.  So be
prepared for a bit of a shock.  If you look at this page, you'll see
pictures of one of my standard meat meals being prepared:

http://www.evfit.com/mealpic1.htm

My nut meals are the same except that I add walnuts cracked from the shell
(not bought with the shell removed), macadamias and Brazil nuts.
Occasionally I add almonds, but I'm wary of the Omega-6 load there, though
I generally eat omega-3-rich fish every day as well, so the balance is
restored over the course of a day.  I generally chop the larger nuts into
two or three pieces.  Quantity - about 100-200g (that's around 600-1300
calories).

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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:54 Paul Sand wrote:

>Are you sure that's the effect of adding nuts? Maybe your diet
>lacked fat and adding nuts corrected this problem.
>So maybe the fat not the nuts is the answer.

No way!  I was eating pemmican, using dollops of suet in meat cooking -
and pouring it over the sald (never down the drain), extracting bone
marrow from cattle thigh bones and adding half a cup of that to my
salads.  You'll see I also add an avocado or two to my salads.  When I
don't I slosh some olive oil on - about 30-50ml.

>Nuts are full of omega-6

Some nuts.

>I choose to be carnivore creature and so far
>I'm more than happy with this choice.

I suspect you, like me, are an omnivore, not a carnivore :-)

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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:51, Lynnet Bannion wrote:

>My problem low-carbing before has been the
>thyroid goes south after a few months of it, and
>I fall off the wagon.

I found this, too (but I never 'fell off the wagon').  After about nine
months of avoiding all salt, I took to sprinkling about half my salads
with iodised salt. Seems to keep my thyroid gland ticking over (and, thus,
makes my winters warmer).  I regard the addition of iodine as quite Paleo
as I'm just compensating for a mironutient that is not available in my
local soils but which is not generally deficient in other parts - incl
Africa.

Keith