Keith Thomas wrote:

 >The first example of paleo eating which was not healthy is the disease
 >kuru occurring in the Fore (pronounced 'foray') people in Papua New
 >Guinea.  This was fatal but people kept on eating the warm brains of their
 >recently deceased relatives and so contracting a disease like CJD.  (They
 >attributed the affliction to spirits).

I'll argue that it is not paleo. Had not outside people gotten them to
change their ways they would have died off. An example of natural
selection. People chose all sorts of things. Only the few that chose the
heathiest survived.

Don.