Don Wiss wrote:
> When I was growing up one per day was considered normal. It was not to
> float. Along the way people started to eat more and more grains and such,
> and BMs increased. All of sudden having more became normal, and doctors
> started saying anything that you normally do is okay.

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here.

> > I eat maybe 30-60g of fibre a day.)
>
> How do you do this on a Paleolithic diet? Lots of fruit? It wouldn't be
> Paleolithic to force anything. They didn't know what fiber was.

I'm not actually on a paleolithic diet. I'm on the Zone diet, and have
some paleolithic leanings. I eat fruit with many, if not most, meals.
Most of my fibre comes from salads, however. The Zone is low-carb
enough that you wouldn't get all that much fibre from the quantities
of fruit you are allowed to eat (unless practically all the fruit you
ate was berries).

> >2. Our ancestors wouldn't have had easy access to the same quantity of
> >berries that we do... are you really following the paleolithic diet if
> >you pig out on them?
>
> This thread started when Lisa Sporleder said she had lots of wild berries
> behind her property. Nothing about buying them has been discussed. What
> makes you think that for the three weeks of the year that ripe ones are
> available they didn't have an abundance of them?

Yeah, I thought of this just after I posted. When I find truly wild
berries,
it is usually just a few bushes out in the woods somewhere. Even taking
the
time to pick as many as I want, and not having to share with anyone, I
don't get the amount of berries you can get with cultivated berries.

However, I agree that situations might have been common in which our
ancestors had access to all-you-can-eat berries for short periods of
time.

Toby