Question about that: did the Inuit (or other similar native  
populations) eat the bones or marrow of the animals prior to adopting  
the European diet?

-Belinda

On Sep 10, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Joseph Berne wrote:

> We have one piece of serious evidence refuting Cordain's position on
> acid/alkaline issues on bone health - the existence of populations  
> (most
> notably the Inuit) who lived on what would have been, according to  
> Cordain,
> massively acid-promoting diets (meat and fat, no plants) yet whose  
> remains
> show no signs of loss of mineral density.  On the contrary, their  
> remains
> show very healthy bones and teeth, far superior to those of plant  
> eating
> populations.
> How that is possible is another question.  Perhaps their increased  
> vitamin
> intake (D3 and K2M4) from the animal fat they ate protected their  
> bones.
> They certainly didn't eat excessive amounts of calcium.  All the  
> research
> on acid/alkaline dietary components and bone density come from  
> research on
> people eating a mostly standard american diet, not comparing high  
> plant
> content paleo diets to low plant content paleo diets.
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Kenneth Anderson  
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> It seems to me the Acid/Alkaline issues presented by Dr. Cordain and
>> Susan Brown on bone health coming from a balance of fruits and
>> vegetables, along with eating much lean meat and fish, is virtually
>> overlooked or unconvincingly denied (at least for me) on this list.
>> I wish Cordain or MS Brown would weigh in on this issue because I  
>> have
>> had no luck whatsoever, it's like trying to stop the rain from
>> falling.  Here once again is Cordain on the subject:
>> http://www.thepaleodiet.com/nutritional_tools/acid.shtml
>>
>> Ken
>>