>>
>> You are right , don't shun or ignore  science ( that was not the intent
of
>> my message) just realise that every discovery added to our "knowlegge "
is
>a
>> confirmation of how really ignorant we are and so don't take it too
>> seriously.
>>  what i see is,  that all this accumulated knowledge since we started the
>> quest didn't teach us more on how to be happy or healthy for the matter.
>> the more we know ,the sicker we are becoming , there is something
>> INTRINSICALLY wrong with that.
>
>
>My original response in this thread had to do with the importance of eating
>a varied diet to ensure adequate intake of nutrients. Somehow that point
got
>blown out of proportion. I never asserted that the scientific viewpoint is
>superior to a hunter-gatherer's intuitive understanding of his environment.
>In ROUGE PRIMATE, John Livingston shows that domestication of humans has
led
>us to be fundamentally lacking in such an an intuitive awareness--a sort of
>understanding that any wild animal displays in its interaction with it's
>environment. The fact remains though that most of us who are trying to eat
a
>paleo diet aren't doing so in the context of a traditional paleo lifestyle.
>Many of us are unaware of what a natural diet really consists. In this
>regard, it is very helpful to understand modern scientific findings about
>the nutritional requirements of the human organism when making paleo
dietary
>choices. In the ancestral environment such considerations would obviously
be
>unnecessary. Wild animals know inherently what they should eat. Part of the
>domestication of humans into the modern world has included the degradation
>of such an instinct.
>
i hear and agree with every thing you said except the last sentence. It was
the point of my post precisely to show that this instinct is not degraded it
is just unused but netherveless completly present and available.
And to be able to tap into it we need to let go of the rational mind.
jean-claude