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From: "David Karas"
 > Supplements are not paleo......... Supplements are off
 > topic. (fish oils are ok to discuss here).

It's irrefutable, isn't it, that *nutrients (and thus nutritional
supplements, too) are fractions of food.*

Probably the majority of us on the list consume fractions in some
form--e.g., olive oil, maybe canola oil, or flax oil.  This couldn't at all
be paleo in the strictest sense.  And, of course, anyone who drinks pressed
fruit juice (there are probably some here)--such as orange, apple, or
grape--is consuming a fractionated food.  And there's been discussion of nut
flours (fractionated) vs. nut meal (whole).  And then there's fish oil from
fractionated, centrifuged fish that's concentrated and purified.  But let us
not acknowledge the role of too much technology to enhance our emulated
paleo lives.  At the simplest level, food is nothing but the constituency of
its nutrients.

I'll quietly retreat now but wonder why some *nutrients* and fractionated
foods are sanctioned list legit for discussion and others OT.   It's a paleo
puzzle.

Theola