>I visited some relatives for the holidays.
>
>I was amazed how much hostility there was towards a  paleo diet. I did not
>try to convert anyone, I minded my own business, still it seems people can


Interesting, but not unusual, probably. But your relatives seem to have
been more "out front" with their anger than some:) I think that what people
fear is that you are somehow different, and that you may have found a
mystical way out of the troubles which plague them as a group and bind them
together. Folks just love sharing troubles, and I often think they'd rather
be sick and talk about it than find a way out, especially if it would
alienate them from their "tribe". I see this with dog owners, too. But with
humans, they'll keep bringing up that "it's just not normal", and that many
races have eaten rice, wheat, etc., for hundreds of years, or that grandpa
did everything wrong he could find and still lived to 100. People have a
real need to be "ok". They want to think they're doing ok compared to the
next guy their age, you know, the one who is diabetic, or whose wife died
of breast cancer. Then they want to blame the dis-ease on God, or luck, or
heredity, so they don't have to take responsibilty.  Then they can say "Oh,
how brave; oh, how strong, she was, fighting her terminal illness..." and
secretly be glad it wasn' them. It reminds me of that story, "The Lottery".

Anyway, these social drives are hard-wired into us every bit as much as
those hormonal and pancreatic responses which were useful and normal in the
"real" world, and are now helping us do ourselves in. Congratulations on
deciding you'd rather live healthily and have us fellow weirdos for your
own tribe!

ginny and Tomo, living on the fringe so long it's solid ground to us

All stunts performed without a net!