>Keith Thomas wrote:
>
> >The first example of paleo eating which was not healthy is the disease
> >kuru occurring in the Fore (pronounced 'foray') people in Papua New
> >Guinea.  This was fatal but people kept on eating the warm brains of their
> >recently deceased relatives and so contracting a disease like CJD.  (They
> >attributed the affliction to spirits).
>
By the time researchers got into contact with this tribe it was already the
custom that only women and children ate the brains. Men (warriors) said it
made them weak and refused to eat it.
That means they somehow saw a connection between the eating of the brains and
a disease that might develop years later.
Still they could have died out so natural selection is doing it's work here.
Would however brains without prions that cause CJD maintained the cycle, than
perhaps it could have been seen as good practice even today to eat brains.
Apparently cannibalism has a few things against it in the sense that
contamination is easier in one particular species. Crosscontamination requires
more modifications of a virus..
Other than that it's a way of getting fed, cannibalism seems only to be taboo
because our ancestors learned that it's less favourable.

Christy

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