Ward Nicholson wrote:

> Well, to me Paleodiet is very much connected with the appeal of a
> philosophy of naturalism. I think most of us already into Paleodiet
> probably take it for granted, but without it, or without some amount of at
> least marginal assent to the appeal of that type of philosophy, most people
> hearing about it aren't going to be very interested. The reason I
> personally first got into "natural foods" at all was because of a general
> idea that "natural is better"--at least where biological things like health
> are concerned.

8<

My way into this list in fact started when I was a child (some 45+ years
ago). In some way I thought the world (the civilication) was weird, and
had some kind of romantic feeling that it must have been "better" during
the stone age. I had a feeling for lots of years that there was
something more natural deep inside humans that would make life
(especially socially) easier. This thinking I had mostly on my own
until a few years ago when I found a book by a swedish human
ethology scientist, Thomas Ljungberg. He shows how first
agricultural life and later (in the middle east 4000 years ago)
the "high cultures" and their wars, forced a change to the human
mind. Every child that is born undergoes all those capitulations
that people of his/her culture has undergone thruoghout the history
(by means of "raising" and of bad child handling habits inherited
from earlier generations).
This would mean that our psychology is even more destryed by the
culture than is our eating, and the diet for the mind has to be
purely "instincto".
In my search for more knowledge and facts, I have read some h/g
anthro books, and been lurking, among other, in the sci.anthro.paleo
newsgroup, where i found my way to the Paleodiet Page.
There i first got intrested in Anopsology ("instinct therapy").
And, as I always want to look for different views on a subject, to
see what is to rely on or not, I also found my way to the Paleodiet
list archive, and now I am here.
Inspired by Guy-Claude Burgers (Anopsology) ideas about alien
molecules, I could not resist my impulse to quit my extensive
bread and cheese eating. I also tried to eat everything raw, but
have not managed more than partly with meat and fish. So I stuck to
mainly fruit and veggies for some 5-6 weeks before I realized that I
have to eat a lot more meat/fish. So now I use my cooker a little again.
This is my story so far. I have lots of thinking and qestion around
raw vs cooked food and human evolution, forbidden fruits, instinct
eating and so on wich I intend to return to later, perhaps waitng
for some of it to mature.
Hope You can understand my english, I´m better off with swedish.

- Hans