Paul Getty wrote:
>
> Grains are, correct me if I'm wrong, the domesticated seeds of any species
> of grass.  But our ancestors very likely ate the seeds of grasses.  In
> fact, at least in some areas, man definitely ate the seeds of grasses;
> otherwise grasses would not have been domesticated.  While some people may
> have an intolerance to grains, that does not prove that grass seeds were
> not part of the diet of Paleolithic man.  Grass seeds and early grains were
> virtually the same.  What really is the problem is that the modern diet is
> MOSTLY grains in so many forms.  And this is what has caused so much
> disease, I feel.

Have a look at:
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A2=ind9706&L=paleodiet&O=A&P=1274
and some other postings by Loren in the Paleodiet archive.
May be our ancestors ate grass seeds when nothing else was around at
all,
I would :-)

- Hans