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Rick:
>Specifically, I have seen much conflicting and poorly documented discussion
>of the osteo issue in the popular press but am aware of mentions of "robust"
>skeletal remains of paleo people in the paleo archeological record but this,
>in my reading, is often anecdotal without a citation. Has anyone taken a
>close look at this issue or can point me to some definitive reading?? Rick
Hunter-gatherers in general, according to Eaton et al (in Paleolithic
Prescription), consumed 1500-2000 mg of calcium daily. This estimate is
based largely on plants foods and perhaps animal sources of calcium (bones)
were important too.
No hunter-gatherer that I have ever heard of, not even Eskimos, ate a meat
only diet. (Preferring organs/marrow/etc to plain ol muscle meat and
varying amounts of plant food.) Stefansson's experiment was about meat only
(with some interesting exceptions), not about a typical paleo diet. Eskimos
ate much wild seafood (including sea mammals) which have much more calcium
than muscle meat from farmed animals.
Cheers,
Kirt
Secola /\ Nieft
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