On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:46:54 -0600, Ken O'Neill <[log in to unmask]>  
wrote:
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> Those studies have been dismissed elsewhere as specious insofar as the
> authors confuse daily protein requirement in toto with amount necessary  
> for muscle growth.

That may be.  Personally, I just go by my own experience over the last  
decade, which seem to indicate that nutrient timing just isn't important.   
(I can eat one meal a day, or six meals a day, have a post-workout meal,  
or not, and it doesn't seem to have any effect at all on my performance or  
body composition.  For me, it's more about *what* I eat, not when.)

> As for training, I'm not interested in mimicking Paleo man by extolling  
> him as a 'noble savage' nor limiting myself by means of an ironic retro  
> dietary agenda poised in evolutionary transformationalist guise! We can  
> certainly
> move forward with emerging sciences rather than base onselves on
> contemporary constructions of what might have been.

I don't buy the noble savage bit either.  But the whole point of this list  
*is* to mimic a paleo diet as much as possible and practical in the modern  
environment.  Paleo man didn't care about nutrient timing, or  
macronutrient ratios, or much of anything else beyond "is it edible --  
good, because I'm hungry."  In his environment, there weren't a lot of  
things that were edible that weren't suitable as food, so this made his  
choices somewhat simpler than ours.

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   Robert Kesterson
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