Paleogal wrote:
>> I found this article interesting
>>     
> the average 15-pound wild monkey takes in
>   
>> 600 milligrams per day of vitamin C, 10 times more than the 60-milligram 
>> recommended daily allowance, or RDA, for humans who weigh on average 150 
>> pounds."
>>
>> "The monkey takes in 4,571 milligrams of calcium per day. The RDA for a 
>> human who weighs 10 times more is 800 milligrams. Of potassium, the monkey 
>> eats 6,419 milligrams; the human is expected to take in 1,600-2,000 
>> milligrams. Of magnesium, the monkey eats 1,323 milligrams; the human RDA 
>> is 350 milligrams."
>> For me this makes a case for ingesting supplements (vitamins, minerals, 
>> etc) along with a paleo diet since it seems that it would be impossible to 
>> get enough nutrition even buying just picked, locally, organic, and with 
>> variety.
>>
>> Steve
>>     
> LOL !!!  Just be sure to swing through the trees when you're done eating.  I 
> think those monkeys don't sit behind a computer or watch television.  Their 
> nutritional requirements are probably a lot higher than ours with the type 
> of activity they indulge.  Unless, of course, they're in a zoo......   Oliva 
>
>
>   
Regardless of activity level, there is still the question of optimum 
nutrition.  Are you of the school of thought that the RDA equals Optimum 
Nutrition or that fruit and veggies developed over centuries can even 
allow us to reach optimum nutrition?

Personally, I consider myself a primate and have found in the material 
that I have read that hunter gather groups "graze" on a very large 
variety of plants as they travel daily.  It was also found that hunter 
gathers don't spend many hours a day foraging for food but have a LOT of 
free time for play so the idea that primates like us need to be 
constantly "swinging through the trees" of even "running all over the 
savanna" doesn't wear well.  Next, there is also the issue of size.  The 
nutrition numbers above were for a 15 lb primate verses a 150 lb human 
so I would expect that "optimum" amounts would be easily north of what a 
wild primate is getting.  Finally, the nutrition for example found in 
our fruit, even organic fruit, is only 10% of what is found in wild 
fruit so eating a completely organic diet using fruits and veggies 
developed by cross breading over the centuries is still going to be way 
below the nutrition levels of what our paleo ancestors were accustom to 
getting only 10,000 years ago.

So, I think there are important points to be derived from the article 
other than some "LOL".  ;-)

Steve