> >Q. I wonder if you've seen Ray V. Audette's book NeanderThin : Eat Like
> a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body, which outlines a
> simple, natural way of eating based on what is known of the diet of
> Paleolithic humans.
> >
> >A. It's almost impossible to make sense of any discourse once the terms
> "nature" and "natural" turn up in it. There is no single "natural" way
> for humans to eat, because there is no single "natural" way for humans to
> live. The Ihalmiut Eskimos of the Great Barrens of Canada thrived on a
> diet that consisted of virtually nothing but the meat of the deer that
> migrated through their homeland above the Arctic circle (where NO
> vegetables edible by humans grow). You and I would probably be unable to
> survive on such a diet, but the bodies of the Ihalmiut had adapted to it
> over countless generations. It became for them a completely "natural" way
> to eat. Just as the bodies of the Ihalmiut adapted to the food that was
> available to them, the bodies of agricultural peoples have adapted to the
> food that is available to them, over a period of thousands of years, so
> that it becomes meaningless to think of ours as a diet that is
> "unnatural." In the last century (and even more intensely) in the last
> half-century, people in industrialized nations have been presented with a
> diet of highly processed foods loaded with preservatives. If any diet can
> be called "unnatural," it's this one, though I think the important point
> is not whether it's natural but whether it's healthy (and it clearly
> isn't, for many people). There is certainly something to be learned from
> a study of the Paleolithic diet, but this doesn't automatically make it
> the "One Right Way" for people to eat (and I don't believe that Audette
> is making such a claim).

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Ray Audette (who does make such a claim!)
Author "NeanderThin"
http://www.neanderthin.com