Chet:
>Thanks to Ward Nicholson for updating his Health & Beyond interviews!
>Ward has also put them into html format, and I recently put all three
>parts of his interviews on my web site. Even if you don't agree with
>Ward's conclusions, you owe it to yourself to read his thoughtful
>commentaries on the human dietary.

Thanks for the plug, Chet. :-)

I would add to Chet's commentary above that this is the first time parts
2 and 3 of the interview have been available on the web. If you have
previously read Part 1 on Chet's site and found it to your liking
("Humanity's Evolutionary Prehistoric Diet and Ape Diets" which contained a
bird's-eye-view timeline of dietary history from 65 million years B.C. to
the present), you may also have interest in Part 2 ("Fire and Cooking in
Human Evolution") and Part 3 ("The Psychology of Idealistic Diets"). The
last part goes into physical problems and psychological rationalizations as
observed in a number of the vegans and raw-foodists in the Natural Hygiene
M2M during the 4 years I ran it from 1992-1996.

Also, the "updates" to the interviews that Chet mentions above are in the
form of postscripts to each interview, which contain updates and
corrections gleaned from newer science I've become aware of after the
interviews were first published; plus some reanalysis and new thinking
about what it all means. There is also a section on fruitarianism in the
postscript to part 3 that had to be left out of the original due to space
restrictions. Also included is discussion of a hypothesis (hyperinsulinism)
receiving considerable attention in Paleodiet research recently that
(although Paloeodiet researchers haven't yet considered this) could explain
why vegans and fruitarians may develop the physical problems some of them
do despite their "clean" diets. (The thought has also occurred to me it may
give some insight into why T.C. Fry could have developed atherosclerosis
and died from a coronary embolism.)

In total the postscripts add probably another 15,000 words or so to the
original 30,000-word count of the original pieces. They are long, so be
prepared; or you might want to consider downloading and printing out first.

--Ward Nicholson <[log in to unmask]>