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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:34 Thomas Bridgeland wrote:

>On Saturday, Jan 22, 2005, at 06:00 Asia/Tokyo, Automatic digest
>processor wrote:
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>>  Logic tells me obviously that humans aren't meant to eat grasses, but
>> the particular ones are so packed with nutrition .....
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>A controversial question in the paleo fold. Some examinations have been
>made of pre-agriculture feces and skeletons. They show lots of meat and
>few veggies. Meat would have been available year round, though, and
>grass seeds just for a few late summer and fall months, so the chance
>of grass remains showing up is much smaller. Also, the best preserved
>remains are from the colder climates, so not much is known of diets in
>tropical and sub tropical areas in comparison.

Tom covers grains.  If you were referrring to the green grass leaves, then I would add that other
animals with a similar gut to that of Homo sapiens - and here I'm thinking of the dog - don't eat a
lot of grass, even when it is fresh and abundant.  In fact grass is more frequently eaten as a
medicine than as a food.  Generally, people who prefer paleo foods also prefer them with a
minimum of processing: refrigetation and simple cooking is about the limit of it.  Most would
regard juicing as un-paleo, not only because there were no juicers in the Paleolithic, but also
because separating the fluid from the fibre in such an extreme and effective way is significantly
unbalacing the food.

Keith

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