>If anyone on this list lives in Massachusetts and is interested in educating
>our state officials and school officials regarding nutrition, contact me.
I'm
>considering a proposal designed to raise awareness on the dangers of modern,
>processed foods, and may, if I so choose, go through with proposing it.
>Please contact me privately at [log in to unmask] if you are interested.

Hi folks --

Thanks, Aaron for the above posting 10 days ago; sorry about the slow
response.  It's been a month or two since we had the thread about "what can
we do besides just keep telling people about paleo eating?"  Your idea
sounds like it fits right in with that concern.  I'm sure that many of us
who don't live in Massachusetts are very interested to hear more about what
you are planning and how it goes.

I have continued to think about other things we can do, and I have a few
suggestions.  I suggest starting a web site -- or adding pages to a site
that one of us may already have -- to include some of the following:

1.  A "top 10 list" of the objections that people love to throw at us, with
quick answers.  This should be short, so that it's easy to email to people,
or print out and hand to folks you meet, or just remember.  "I heard that
meat causes colon cancer" ... "won't I get fat if I eat fat?" etc.  For
each of these, I'd like to see a quick answer, and also some background
info such as pointers to scientific studies that back up our point of view.

2.  A "diseases of civilization" list of conditions that paleo eating can
cure or at least help.  This should also be backed up with references to
scientific studies, and should also include some actual "it worked for me"
case studt/testimonials, since these often have more gut impact (no pun
intended) on people than dry statistics.

3.  Of course, this is a great place to store the recipe file that someone
(sorry, I forget who) has gathered.  One of those Top 10 questions is
probably, "don't you get bored/what can you make with so few ingredients?"
The recipes may turn out to be as good a "recruiting" tool as the medical
info.

4.  Suggestions on how to do other activist-type things -- I don't have
much else to add here, except that whatever Aaron comes up with would be a
good start.


That's about all I've come up with so far; additions or comments are
welcome.  I have a megabyte or two to spare at my own web site
(http://www.dallas.net/~kent), so I could host at least some of this stuff.

... Oh, here's one more thought that was triggered by Aaron's above
message.  We could make alliances with other types of "food advocates" who
are at least partly in alignment with us.  For instance, the Atkins and
Zone people agree with us about low-carb; the vegetarians and raw-food
folks agree with us about eating plenty of fresh produce.  Even though we
all have different approaches, we might be able to work together in some
areas.  Just brainstorming ...