The idea is spreading! This is from the sugarbuster list. The front page of
the New Orleans paper had a huge article on this diet, and how it has taken
over the city. Grocery stores are carrying sugarbuster approved items, and
restaurants now have sugarbuster  dishes! It is not exactly paleo, but does
not allow any sugar exept for that naturally occuring in foods. Meat is ok.



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>At 09:08 AM 9/8/97 -0700, Tony Costa wrote:
>>Bill,
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>>What do you mean by "maximize their evolutionary digestive systems"?
>
>I don't recall whether I read it in the book, or the good cardio doctor
>pointed out when I heard him talk, but the authors point out that while man
>has been farming, and thus eating carbs for thousands of years, he has been
>a carnivore much longer and that our bodies have evolved to use-need meat
>and fat to function properly. They only become "bad" for us when we start
>mixing them with large quantities of carbs and much worse when we learn to
>refine those carbs in ways that mess with insulin production contrary to
>what our bodies evolved to use and do. Our digestive systems are "designed"
>for meat eaters/hunters. The couple or so millenia that we have been around
>as farmers and wheat and sugar eaters are not long enough in the grand
>scheme of things for us to have evolved away from meat eaters to carb
>eaters. Our naturally selected bodies are survivalists for meat-fat. Thus I
>think our digestive systems to which we have evolved are better suited to
>the sugarbusters way of eating and thus we simply maximize our
>bodies'efficent use of fuel and production of energy and the concomittant
>feeling of good health related to it. I believe evolution would select away
>from meat and fat in the quantity we like as it adjusts to longer slothful
>lives of individuals in a species no longer hunting and working so hard to
>survive.
>
>Ciao,
>       Bill
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