On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 18:39:41 -0400, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Amadeus Schmidt wrote:

>> Sounds good, the "stop eating".
>> Unfortunately few humans have and had access to abundant sources of low
>> protein/high fat food.
>> Actually only in the arctic - for Inuit,
>> or with abundant nuts in the environment.
>> Stephansson ate 18% protein, I recall.
>
>I agree that it is almost impossible, using natural foods, to eat as
>little as 12% protein and almost all the rest fat.  But keep in mind
>that Blumberg is concerned not with paleo diet but with diet-induced
>thermogenesis (DIT). This means that DIT would be a very rare
>condition, with one exception: starvation.

Only as long as you insist on predominating meats and/or low-carb
and ignore nuts.

The percentages in my examples are the calorie percentages from
protein/fat/carb computed by "nutrisurvey" and they are even 8%.

The examples I listed (yams, fruit, nuts) are all paleo,
don't you think so?

Nuts are fat/protein. The others carb/protein.
Did Blumberg write that it wouldn't work with carbs?

With as much as 90% fat (2200 kcal/day) I wonder weather the bile would
manage to emulgate the big fat loads. I think that would be necessary
to assimilate it.

Cheers

Amadeus