On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:32:00 +1000, Phosphor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>>True paleo, salmon? 500g per day
>moron...paleo means pre-agricultural. wherever it happens to be. in the
case
>of aborignes this was until mid twentieth century.

Paleo comes from paleolithic which means old-stone-age.

This is for most humans the time before 10,000 BC and of course for some
populations (there may be some aboriginals left as well) less time.
Starting from some 2,300,000 years agow with humanoids.
And from 120,000 years ago with modern looking humans.

Then comes neolithic, wich is young stone age, after introduction of
agriculture and ending at about 3000bc with the advent of metal tools
("lith" means stone).

If you interpret all pre-agricultural als paleo then you miss the main and
best argument for a paleo nutrition: Our genes. The claim that our genes
cannot have changed in the only 10,000 years of agriculture to adapt to
this kind of nutrition. And therefore you should eat like before 10,000 ya.

In order to follow this idea you'd have to look at the time of at least
several times the 10,000 years. Like 100,000 or 1,000,000 years ago.

Except that you are not of european/chinese/near east descent.

Amadeus
(personally I see a much bigger break in nutrition between industrial food
- after 1900 or so- and early agriculture
than between paleolithic and neolithic).