Lynnet Bannion wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:47:13 -0700, Bill Wilcox <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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>> Hi and welcome. If you want to get rid of all cravings remove all
>> plant matter from your diet and only eat from the animal world. Plant
>> based foods would be out of season and unavailable at this time
>> anyway, depending on your hemisphere and distance from the equator.
>> You could only eat them for a couple weeks during the year.
> Not actually true. If all-meat diets work best for some people, more
> power to them. But in our temperate climate, plant foods are available
> from late spring through late fall, at least six months. If you are an
> Inuit, plant foods are seldom available, but most of us
> are not. I don't really think Paleo man would have turned down fruits,
> vegetables, herbs, nuts, and mushrooms; they would hardly have walked
> right past a source of edible and delicious foods.
>
> What is true is that they would not have eaten the SAME plant foods year
> around. Each individual food may only be available for a few weeks.
> But out of hundreds of edible plants used by hunter-gatherer groups,
> something was available during the growing season. If you lived in
> tropical areas, something would be available at nearly all times of the
> year. Eating seasonally is a big help in avoiding food sensitivies,
> cravings, etc.
>
> Lynnet
>
Paleo man in Australia apparently ate carbs/plant material all year at
20-40% of total calories.
Steve
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