On Mon, 7 May 2001 12:19:11 -0400, Peter Brandt <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>With your (near) exclusion of animal foods this
>makes your diet basically a natual hygiene version (without the fruits)
>of a neolithic diet.

Of course I eat fruit, in the case I forgot to outline this.

Natural who?
Are those people interested in the paleolithical aspect of eating?
That would include
- to eat wild fruit,
- care about changes in the varieties through breeding
  (of fruit and animals)
- care about seasonability
- care about new world/old world food
- care about actual food processing methods in the wild
- preferrance of uncooked food
- care about micronutrient and macronutrient compositions available in the
 wild (actually!)
- insist on food items that aren't extracted or otherwise altered by
  conservation, fertilizing or fedder

? If they do, I should take a look.

How is your own interest in these aspects?

> There is nothing wrong with this except for the
>fact that you are on a paleo food list insisting that you are eating a
>paleo diet.

Yes, I am aiming to have benefints from eating as close as practical to a
actual genetically adapted diet, like in the paleolithicum.
That should be the goal of a paleo food list, shouldn't it?

>To satisfy your scientific curiosity maybe one day
>you will try being an extraordinary omnivore and
>try a paleo diet.

I have of course had times with perfect paleo nutrition, of course without
meat, but with only nuts, vegetables and fruit, striktly avoiding food items
like dairy and cereals that were told be have been unavailable in paleo
times. But which turned out to have been not true.
The avoidance of dairy had some positive effect, the avoidance of cereals
made no change for me.

Very strange really that many people want me to eat animals.
Why so? I would never insist on someone else to eat termites, for example.

I've honestly listed my actual diet, including my cheatings to such a
"paleo" diet. Well, cheatings they would called only be in the light of Ray
Audette's book, who is diabetic and has rheumatoid athritis.
Grains, even cereals and dairy *have* been eaten in the paleolithicum, just
to a lesser percentage. Just because Ray Audette can't stand them, as he has
probably allergies or intolerances against this "non paleo" food doesn't
make them unpaleo. You can have intolerances and allergies against *any*
protein, including meat as in my case.
Just because Ray Audettes vision of his allergies is to call his allergens
"unpaleo" doesn't make them unpaleo.

We aren't talking only about a meat lovers and gluten/casein intolerance
diet, are we?

Amadeus