On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:07:12 -0400, Wade Reeser <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I'm really curious Amadeus, with the a large part of your diet being
>decidedly unpaleolithic (e.g. cheeses, grains, potatoes and beans)

What you call unpaleolithic is actually a very small part of my diet.
As I told you, most is *lots* of fresh green plant, nuts and vegetables.

I also don't describe my personal present diet as perfect (as I told).
I'm still dependent on some outer circumstances, and still in a
process of thinking.
Those who are perfect may rise their right arm now.....

I also have a different POV where to make the practical compromises, what
was paleolithic and as not.

If you look at the facts, then the  2forbidden" list is not exactely
a list of what's not historic paleolithic,
Its a list of some of *todays* allergy-prone food items.

> and a
>fairly persistant complaint towards diets that include alot of meat,
>why do you post to this list?
Because the formula paleolithic = meat is too simple and is wrong.
If I look back our anchestors history I simply can see that most of the
time when our metabolism built up, meat played a minor role.
That's all too simple - we still have to use our heads IMO.

Most important paleolithic guidelines were IMO (for ex)
- eat fresh, living
- eat as unprocessed as possible
- eat seasonal different
- eat things that are unprocessed *tasty*
- keep away from poisons (pesticides hormones)
- .....

>Remember that 'Neanderthin' is the basic guideline towards in this
>mail list for our paleolithic diet and your food choices are clearly

>'unpaleolithic.'

unpaleolithic? in what terms?
Absence of technology:
How much of your meat do you eat raw, unsalted, unaged, unprocessed?
Unfarmed? How much?
But you complain me eating a tuber that has to be cooked(potatoe).
Compromises for both of us.

Annother example, cheese: first thing what American Sioux-Hunters ate,
after killing a Bison calv was eating the soured milk
of its stomach - fresh white cheese.
That was available to all hunters of mammals in every millenium.

This mail lists heading reads:
PALEOFOOD is a support list for persons following a paleolithic style
diet such as described by Ray Audette in
NEANDERTHIN "A Caveman's Guide to Nutrition"
and all other similar approaches in the spirit of the Hunter-Gather

I (try to) follow one approach in the spirit of the Hunter-Gather
that is not exactely what Rays Boock describes.