On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Hans Kylberg wrote:

> I think we have to distinguish between foods that we eat regurlarly and
> in some amounts. Eating anything that is nutritious and not too poisonous
> I think people have done occasionally, all times. But big amounts and
> often is something else.

I agree with this approach.  Big amounts and often mean a major
dietary shift, and that is where we get into trouble, I think.

> I think we will have to choose what to eat from a more
> personal criterium than a commonly recognized "paleo" definition.
> For example I do not eat peanuts partly because I do not like them.
> What we can agree about is that cereal grains and dairy
> should not make up the main part of our food.

Exactly.  There is a vast difference between having peanuts
occasionally and going to a legume-based diet.  To repeat a point
I've made before, if paleolithic people hadn't eat grains at
least sometimes, they never would have cultivated them.  It makes
no sense to cultivate foods that you don't eat.  But that doesn't
mean that theirs was a grain-based diet.  I think we can be sure
it wasn't.

Todd Moody
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