At 11:27 1999-07-29 -0700, Wally wrote:
>Latex gloves seems like a "no brainer" to me, but I
>find it hard to accept papayas and bananas as being
>"not paleo".

As far as I know, bananas origin from south east Asia, and humans
from Africa, so they have not met until recently (apart from people
living in or inheriting from south east Asia).
We generally agree on this list that fruits are "intended to be
eaten" so they do not contain anything we should avoid, but bananas
are a very special fruit.
But perhaps there is in fact no vegetable food at all that is
absolutely free from some problem. Everything You eat perhaps has
both pros and cons, containing somethin You need and something one
should do better without. Then the answer will be to not eat too
much of anything.
There was an article about the Penans of Borneo in my newspaper
the other day. There hade been an abundance of fruit where they
live recently, wich happens with an interval of about ten years.
So they have been eating almost nothing but fruit for some time,
but now this has come to an end so they are going back to their
ordinary sago and game eating. They probably have been an agri-
cultural people more than 1000 years ago, but switched to h/g
when they moved to Borneo djungles. Maybe that is why they rely
much on a carb staple food, the sago.

- Hans