Anna L. Abrante wrote:
> How healthy can we expect to be?
> Maybe someone can give me an age to shoot for ...... Do we
> reaaaalllly have to go back 40,000 yrs to find a diet that will achieve the
> above?
> We should demand to be at least as healthy as wild animals and not suffer from "diseases of civilization".
After all if civilization doesn't improve human life, all it benifits is the crop species.

I don't think a life can be judged by lenth but if I had to pick a number I'd go with one million hours.  It's
a nice round number is optimisticly within the realm of possibility.

We can never duplicate the diet of 40,000 years ago.  Most of the animals we ate are long extinct and the
enviroment we lived in (steppe-tundra) doesn't exist anymore.  But we must remember what kind of creature we
are and try to eat accordingly.  Randomness produces patterns that are far more complex than any artificial
diet can overcome.  We are only now developing the mathematics to understand it (see:Mandelbrot's "The Fractal
Geometry of Nature").  Overcoming tens of millions of years of Primate evolution would be very difficult as a
"forbidden fruit" may contain hundreds of unique substances that would require adaptations of several genes for
each in order for the body to tolerate them.

By trying to keep conditions as Natural as possible (ie naked with a sharp stick) we can come as close to the
initial conditions that shaped our bodies as possible.  The benefits of doing so are apparent to anyone who
tries it.  Nothing else could explain the success of "NeanderThin".  This book has overcome the deficits of
both my writing style and pitiful marketing efforts.  I am grateful to those who have tried it and spread the
word.  Before the book, I only had one "convert" and she married me.

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"