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Date: | Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:39:27 -0500 |
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Toby Martin wrote:
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> It seems likely to me that both stone-age and modern hunter-gatherers
> have eaten roots/tubers as part of their diet, but I take it that
> today's paleodieters generally avoid potatoes, and I assume this
> includes yams and whatnot.
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> Do you guys eat any root vegetables? Which ones?
I'm not sure exactly when the Paleolithic period was, but potatoes were
not eaten more than 70,000 years ago, because it is native only to South
America, and the first Americans came across the land bridge from Alaska
around 70K years ago (last figure I have read).
The macrobiotic people don't like potatoes because it's in the
nightshade family, so potatoes contain trace ammounts of nicotine
(another nightshade family member). Anyway, I find roasted potatoes
very tasty on occasion myself. I prefer the yellow variety, such as
Yukon gold, which has a natural buttery flavor.
Yams are native to Brazil and Africa, so they probably were eaten during
the Paleo era in Africa. Why would anyone not eat yams? They contain
beta-caratenoids, which acts as a heart disease inhibitor.
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