Jim wrote:

 >I've been Phinney-ing it lately.  Here's a good example of a daily
 >meal for the last eighteen days: four eggs, three slices of bacon in
 >the morning; skip

No processed meats are paleo. I know the Crossfit crowd loves bacon, 
but they are seeking optimal athletic performance. People here tend 
to be following paleo to avoid diseases of civilization. Loading up 
on nitrates isn't going to cut it. For one, it correlates with colon cancer.

 >I'm on Pinterest last night and I see Rob Wolfe's Paleo Solution Quick
 >Start Guide to Paleo which says, "Stock up on espresso, teas and
 >mineral water as these are your beverages of choice."

Coffee is a inedible fruit seed that has to be roasted. As we all 
know, fruit seeds are supposed to make it through the digestive 
system and still be viable. In no way is coffee paleo.

Rob Wolf has softened the paleo diet to make it appeal to more 
people. I suspect that is why coffee is included. Not allowing it 
would turn too many people off. For example, he pushes lean meat. 
 From his Podcast #123 on March 13, 2012:

Then at the same time, it's so easy to disseminate information that it's
easy to then create the firewall that is so complex that then people just
bail and they're done. That's where the lean meat part comes in. People in
the beginning need to hear lean meat. They just do because if they don't,
they're going to freak out. They're going to be like, "Oh, it's Atkins," and
they're gone.

So what this is, is just learning over the course of time to tell people
what they need to hear so that we get them bought in long enough so that
their life is transformed. Then we can say, "Oh, by the way, the real story
is this." Like, "You don't have to worry so much. You can have bacon with
breakfast, and it's not going to be the end of the world. That's all cool."
If we lead with that, we're not going to get any type of buy in. We're going
to peel people out and it's not going to serve them in the long run.

Don.