On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:28:08 -0400, Philip Thrift <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>People ask me about my calorie breakdown (protein/fat/carbs)
>on my NeanderThin program
>(http://pthrift.homepage.com/paleofitness.html). Perhaps
>someone who is knowledgeable can give me a rough estimate.
>
>Here would be a typical daily intake (with variation in the vegs/carbs
>and sometime 4.0 lbs meat -- but this is basically it):
>
>   3.5 lbs meat  (= 1.5 rib-eye   1.5 pork-loin   1.5  chicken breast)
>   3 celery stalks
>   6 strawberries
>   1 zuchini
>   1/2 onion
>   1 tomato
>   2 cups spinach

I may suggest you to go directly to
http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~food-lab/nat/
Here you can get an overview of your composition with little effort.
You have to decide how fat you peaces were (quite differing).
I've tried a little, leaving out your
few selected vegetable +fruit items (these may hardly influence
kcal and protein much, but just include them).

My private paleo critic on the resulting list below:

Energy with 4600 kcal is much too high even for sportsmen.
1000% of protein RDA - i better not comment this - it is disputed here.

The meat quality of the chicken breast seems to be
paleo-like (not so fat, and not too high in saturated fat).
From the other two meats, i used one very lean variety, though:

The high saturated fat part of 41% (80g per day) is a killer.
I mean that literally.

No long term paleo animal will have had such high
fat percentages, so high in saturated fat.

Nutrient Analysis Tool - Analyze Food
   Nutri     Total    Rec.   %Rec.
-----------+--------+------+------
  Calories 4654.99    2900  160.52%
   Pro (g)  616.35      58 1062.67%
   Fat (g)  220.17   96.67  227.75%
  Carb (g)   17.08      --    --
 Fiber (g)       0      --    --
  satF (g)   80.49   32.22  249.81%
 monoF (g)   93.04   32.22  288.76%
 polyF (g)   18.37   32.22   57.01%


 Food 1-SPINACH-BLD-W/SALT (11854)-2:1 c
 Food 2-CHICKBRST-NO SK-FRYD (05063)-1.5:1 lb
 Food 3-PORKCTRRIB-BL-L+F-BR (10196)-1.5:1 lb
 Food 4-BFRIBEYE-CH-LN-BRL-Z (13098)-1.5:1 lb

   Nutri     Food 1   Food 2   Food 3   Food 4
-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------
  Calories     82.8  1272.32  1769.00  1530.87
   Pro (g)     10.8   227.25   187.79   190.51
   Fat (g)     1.08    31.98   107.50    79.61
  Carb (g)    13.68     3.40        0        0
 Fiber (g)      N/A        0      N/A        0
  satF (g)     0.14     8.78    39.39    32.18
 monoF (g)     0.04    11.70    47.69    33.61
 polyF (g)      0.4     7.28     8.44     2.25

Amadeus Schmidt