On Friday, Dec 17, 2004, at 06:30 Asia/Tokyo, Elizabeth Hawxhurst wrote:

> Somewhat unrelated to my own diet, my boyfriend is slightly overweight,
> asthmatic, allergic to everything...basically everything that can be
> cured
> with the paleodiet!  He will not try it though, as he eats out every
> day for
> lunch at work and thinks it will be too hard.  He is also worried about
> cholesterol - I keep reassuring him that it will go DOWN, not up, but
> he is
> very skeptical.
>

It isn't so hard to stick too, even eating out. Just avoid the
bread/grain products as a first rule.

It helps a lot with allergies/hayfever.

As for cholesterol, it seems people vary a lot. Mine went up. It was
low before I started, very high on Atkins, and now is still higher than
it was before. 230 now. Other people have it fall.