On Mon, 3 Aug 1998 10:44:10 -0700, kim birney <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> If you let nuts and seeds be your meat, then practicability problem
>> suddenly is no more.
>Amadeus,
>I would hate to think of how much I would weigh if I
>substituted nuts for even a small portion of the meat I eat.
>I can eat about an once of nuts per week without
>experiencing weight gain. Like most of your ideas, this one
>is totally impractical.
>kim birney

Practicability is indeed the main challenge in the attempt to live
a paleolithic - or better a natural lifestyle.

But i can't accept discarding main principles and knowledge.
For example eating pigs, heavyly degenerated
animals, farmed, causing
exactely the much critizised chemical farming, and full of a
load of bad fats -- just because it's available cheap.

I know it's impractical to rely on game only for nourishment of
the USA, for example (it's enough for 2 Millions but for 255 Millions).
But you need not so much - you have nuts and seeds.
With plants - as nuts- it's differnt.
Plants _can_ be grown sufficiently in an acceptable manner.

I see no reason why nuts should be more leading to obesity than meats.
It depends on your total composition.
I'm consuming rather much nuts, almonds and sunflower seed and
weigh 69kg beeing 184 cm.

Neanderthing claims obesity comes from allergies - may be.
I know at least one more main reason...
See my obesity-post.

regards
Amadeus