On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Denis Peyrat wrote:

> Even so, instincto falls victim to the same reasoning you accuse
> paleo-diets of: 'deriving the notion of "natural diet" from a given period
> of time of our history; namely, pre-fire homonids as opposed to late
> paleolithic as paleo-diets generally do.

I'm having a hard time seeing how one "derives" anything from anywhere,
when the issue of instincts is involved.  Surely, our ancestors didn't
have detailed information on their predecessors' diets to rely on as they
were trying to decide what to eat.  Why should we now?