On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Ingrid Bauer wrote:

> ---  That sugar is refined, but there is no rule against
> >refined ingredients in Neanderthin or other paleo implementations
> >that I am familiar with.  Perhaps there should be, but that would
> >change the diet considerably.
>
> How can you refined sugar with a sharp stick? i am very surprised by this .
> That is the all point of a paleo eating in my opinion, eating whole foods,

You can't, but that's not the "Neanderthin rule."  Neanderthin
only excludes those *ingredients* that would not have been in the
foods that paleo people ate.  It doesn't exclude the extraction
and refining of those ingredients.  Again, perhaps a case could
be made that a proper paleo diet should be made more restrictive
in this way.

Other refined/extracted/isolated ingredients that have generally
been regarded as "approved" are olive oil, coconut oil, rendered
animal tallow, and so on.  You can't refine any of these with a
sharp stick.

Todd Moody
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