On Sun, 8 May 2005 14:52, nicole wrote:

>I've found that I have to have some form of starch in
>my diet to feel satified and content.

Starches from roots would have been a regular part of Palaeo diets in Africa, though we can agree
that starches from grains would have been a negligible part of any Palaeo diet.

There was a paper published about 6 months ago by Dawn Youngblood, a census of food plants
native to the Karoo area which is where the well-known Hottentots and Bushmen lived.  The paper
includes illustrations of a few plants and these include many roots, including corms, tubers and
bulbs.  Some of these were big and abundant.  I can't believe such nourishing food sources would
have been ignored - ever.  If you look at the Wrangham hypothesis, you will find a case for the
roots providing the drive for the evolution of Homo sapiens, not meat.

I don't see why 'low carb' should be the criterion for Palaeo foods.  If you're a Palaeo purist, you'd
go for naturally-grown tubers over feedlot meat or eggs from hens fed on grains any day.

Keith