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Amadeus:
>Yes, I am aiming to have benefints from eating as
>close as practical to a actual genetically adapted diet,
>like in the paleolithicum.
I can see how eating meat might be impractical
for a vegetarian like yourself. ;-)
Amadeus:
>That should be the goal of a paleo food list, shouldn't it?
Indeed. However, making up strawman arguments for not eating
whole categories of foods that are essential to paleo is not.
Amadeus:
>Very strange really that many people want me to eat animals.
>Why so?
Because of the intellectual dishonesty of your omitting an important
category of paleo foods while being on a paleo list and claiming to
be trying to emulate a paleo diet.
Amadeus:
>I would never insist on someone else to eat termites, for example.
Naturally, but you could easily make the argument that insects belong
in any paleo diet.
Amadeus:
>Grains, even cereals and dairy *have* been eaten in the paleolithicum,
>just to a lesser percentage.
The "just" is the whole point. The proportions and ratios are crucial
- facts that you consistently are choosing to neglect. As I might
have stated earlier, I could eat a diet consisting exclusively of
blueberries, grasshoppers, walnuts and spinach and, yet, it could
never be called a paleo diet.
Amadeus:
>We aren't talking only about a meat lovers and gluten/casein
>intolerance diet, are we?
Hardly. Paleo diets come in all types and sizes but one thing they
are never and that is vegetarian.
Peter
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