Loren Cordaine wrote:
>> << Although the dietary calcium to protein ration in stone age diets
would
>>have been quite low, the large amount of fruits and vegetables (35% of
>>total energy) included in the diet would have produced a net dietary acid-
>>base status which would have favored bone accretion even in the face of
>>enormous protein intakes.  >>
>>

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 05:44:24 -0500, Philip Thrift <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>To make you happy I ate some spinach yesterday :-).
>
> ~ 20% (non-meats) instead of 35% may be enough for this --
>like the reindeer and mammoth hunter cultures.

I'm afraid you are a bit too optimistic on
what it takes to make me happy..
Your can make your own decisions,
but at last you are recommending your way of eating to other people as well.

They might be less optimistic as you, to reduce the fruits/vegetables part
to about half of what Cordaine reported.
And the 35% energy from plant food is at the low end, as far as I recall
it was between 65 and 35 %.

>
>People worried about potential future osteoperosis might
>want to worry more about not being weightlifters.

Like the mammothlifters of the past?
I think if you are weightlifting, then you are improving your bodie's
emphasis on bone growth.
It doesn't improve your calcium balance. Your body just has to borrow it's
calcium from other places. Like bones, less used in your training,
like teeth, like other chemistry.
Your may for give a slight point of critique from
a non-professional on your photos (which are otherwise esthetically IMO).
Could it be that there is a slight assymetry?

regards

Amadeus S.
(N.B rumex is a ice age herb, similar to spinach in some aspects)