On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 21:55:37 -0700, Mark Moore <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> I look at modern man and see a sickly animal.
>IMO there are too many diseases, too much suffering and life expectancy
>is too short.  We are doing something wrong with our lifestyles. IMO
>there is a decent chance that is related to our diet.
That's it.

>..........Much of this belief is based on the quantum increase in my
>health when i eliminated all grains.
Real big health increases are happening if allergenes are cut out of
the
diet. I think that that is, what most Neanderthin-followers experience
after cutting out grains. Relief from year-long allergic stress.
I've read that some 30% have allergic reactions on wheat and
even more o
n cows milk. Allergy-specialists will be able add you a bunch of
additional common stuffs (soy, hazel, strawberry, pig for example).

Via some postings in paleofood and paleodiet and at other places I've
learned
that grains actually *had* been used in paleolithic times
(though not in a big percantage).

Maybe the "no grain"-doctrine is working just as an anti-allergy
directive, rather than an actual paleolithic diet resembling attempt.

However, what counts is what wins - and in this way  Ray's dogmas
work well for all allergy prone - and these are quite many.

In previous centuries such allergies were quite seldom
although people ate *lots* of grains, even in an extreme monotone way.
I think this speaks for the view that the actual cause of the
allergies
is something else but the grain stuff (lectines, gluten...).
For example pesticides, hormones and other food production chemicals,