>The reason I describe "my" local indians as paleolithic is this is what
>they
>were. Whether its 5k years or 50k years is irrelevant.

Charles,

I agree wholeheartedly!  I guess that technically the elk and buffalo native
to what we now call Colorado isn't "paleolithic".  So the $&#@ what?  I'm
only guessing here, but didn't peoples native to North and South America get
here long after the paleolithic period?  If so, the 'new world food'
argument is dead in the water.  The Cherokee, Navajo, Lakota, etc. tribes
are native to this continent.  They ate 'new world food' and they were tall,
lean and healthy.  To think they weren't as healthy as Thor the Hunter from
the other side of the Atlantic doesn't cut it.

To me, the concept has always been what we should eat is that which can be
eaten without technology.  That doesn't mean you CAN'T use heat and cook it
if that's the way you like it.  And it is impossible to eat a true paleo
diet, as the bulk of what humnas ate during that time period no longer
exists.  I've said this from day one.

Dori Zook
Denver, CO
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