> ok, no ned to shout =o] butter i can toss out and > live without... but > how did the caveman extract oil from olives?? is > that paleo??? > > trish There is no reason to assume the "original" cavemen extracted oil from olives. Animal fat would have sufficed. However, "later" primitive people may have used it for some cooking or food processing. My understanding is that the oil can be extracted simply by squeezing the olives inside somthing like a cheesecloth. After reading some of your questions it seems like you may be mixing the paleo diet up with other higher fat diets (e.g.-Atkins, etc.) Is this a correct assumption? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com