The Paleolithic diet actually doesn't contain any tubers or starchy foods, so potatoes should definitely have been banned from the study. It's true that modern hunter-gatherers eat tubers (and even some fermented grains or raw dairy), but one has to remember that these are Neolithic-era hunter-gatherers, so don't have the same diet as their ancestors in the Palaeolithic.
Geoff
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> ------------------------------> > Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 17:27:00 +0100> From: Rundle <[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Re: Stone-age diet may lower risk of heart disease> > Here's the abstract as published in the European Journal of Clinical => Nutrition - http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v62/n5/abs/1602790a.html => incl. contact details for Dr. Dr Per Wandell...=20> > There's no mention of the fat content on the trial diet [lean meat or => otherwise]... as for potatoes... paleo-people did eat starchy tubers and => roots as do present day hunter/gatherer groups.> > On the whole, as you say, it's a step in the right direction,> > Dedy> London UK
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