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From: Whitson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, 19 September 1999 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [P-F] (P-F) Pregnant Wife


> >Ben Balzer wrote:
>
> >However if the carbohydrate intake is too low, then one is forced to
> add in >some Neolithic foods (boiled rice would probably be preferable
> to wheat based
> >products as rice has less antinutrients I think)(any comments?)( do
> Asian >women get less morning sickness?).
>
>
> I am fairly new to the list but I had a question.  What would signal
> carbohydrate consumption being too low?  I eat a Paleo diet and gave
> birth to my son last year.  My midwife was new to the Paleo diet (and I
> do not think ever fully understood it).  I was in ketosis the last few
> months of my pregnancy and I ate plenty of Paleo fruits and vegetables.
> I did not see this as a problem as I talked to Ray Audette and his wife
> was the same.  We both accessed that many
> hunter-gatherer moms had given birth on a Paleo diet.  So why would you
> think it
> would be necessary to add grains, such as rice?
>
Top prevent starvation if a really nauseous woman couldn't consume her carbs
any other way.
Ben Balzer


> Kendra
> NeanderTwin