I think that many of today's paleodieters might - like me - be avoiding
potatoes (D Quayle please note!) as part of a general low-carb diet as type
II diabetics. They are, after all, very starchy & soon end up as unwanted
glucose in the system.

The low carb diet is certainly working for me - my late afternoon (pre
evening meal) BG is now down to 4.5 Mmol/L from 12 Mmol/L in 2 weeks just
by removing all obvious carbs & substituting meat, fat  & salad veg in
sufficient quantity as to satisfy my hunger. Any snacking involves nuts &
non-citrus fruit.

I'm waiting to see what effect the diet has had on my previously high BP.

As regards cooking roots & tubers - surely Paleolithic man would have been
familiar with steaming them using  the hot stones oven technique if not by
boiling them (in what you ask? - good question)  as we do now - fire was
thought to have been used by Java man long before the Neanderthals came on
the scene.

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> From: Kim Tedrow <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: tubers?
> Date: 18 June 1997 00:51
>
> I am confused, in general, about why potatos do not qualify on a
Paleodiet.
>
> Not that I"d eat them w/out the benefit of technology (cooking), but they
are
> edible that way.  ~gak~
>
> Ray?
> :)
> Kim
> In a message dated 6/17/97 19:46:26, you wrote:
>
> <<It seems likely to me that both stone-age and modern hunter-gatherers
> have eaten roots/tubers as part of their diet, but I take it that
> today's paleodieters generally avoid potatoes, and I assume this
> includes yams and whatnot.>>