In a message dated 8/30/02 11:03:46 AM, Amadeus Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
writes:

<< My point is:
*If* vegetarian children compare well or very well in IQ tests
*then* dietary DHA intake cannot be a worsening factor for intelligence.

Either the Boston children *had* a significant dietary intake of DHA
(unprobable) or intelligence isn't related to dietary DHA. >>

OR, the children they are being compared to had comparably little DHA as
well. Where would children eating the SAD get their DHA from? Corn Flakes and
skim milk? Macaroni and cheese? hot dogs and French fries? I don't think so.
And, where is the study comparing the intelligence of Boston vegetarian
children to Boston meat-eating Paleo children?

Amadeus- >If dietary DHA would be necessary, then both, vegetarians or
meateaters would have to *supplement*.

Hasn't it been well demonstrated that plenty of DHA is available from free
range/grass fed meats, as well as wild caught fatty fish? Some have chosen to
supplement, un-Paleo though it may be, as these sources of DHA are expensive
and difficult to come by, and few modern people wish to consume many organ
meats. Also, there is the issue of widespread mercury toxicity in some of the
natural marine sources of DHA. But these modern day problems do not make DHA
any less necessary for optimal brain/body health, nor indicate that DHA was
not widely available and consumed in Paleo times.

Maddy Mason
Hudson Valley, NY