Ok, I guess there's not too strong a consensus as to what test should be
applied to determine if a certain food is paleo.  Everything I've read so
far seems to imply that the effect of a food on blood sugar is important in
paleo-dieting.  Also, even if buckwheat groats pass the phytogenetic test,
they certainly fail the "naked with a stick" test, right?  And even if they
could be gathered and eaten in the wild, would the intense processing
required to make a fruit into a flake (even a flake-susceptible fruit such
as a buckwheat groat) by its own nature make a food non-paleo?  I consider
myself on the paleo diet, and have lost just tons of weight, feel better,
blood pressure dropped, many symptoms have ceased, clearer mind, and so on
(and on -- yes, I will NEVER go back, believe me), but all this time I've
been eating yams (as in sweet-potatoes, not true yams) -- didn't realize
they were non paleo until I read Ray Audette's "Neanderthin".  I have cut
them out, even though they didn't seem to bother me (but I do think that
those last 5 lbs. I want to lose aren't going anywhere until I cut the
yams).  Tell me, is it generally known which "rules of paleo" are most
important, to least important?

Erik


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>On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Erik Hill wrote:
>
> > www.thebirkettmills.com makes the claim that buckwheat (groats) is/are
> > actually a FRUIT.  I realize that sufficient processing (such as
>required to
> > make it into the flakes and stuff that www.thebirkettmills.com sells)
>would
> > still mean it's not-paleo -- but is this true?  Is buckwheat a fruit?
>
>That is what I have read on more than one occasion, and the same
>applies to quinoa.
>
>Incidentally, according to the phylogenetic approach to paleo
>that some people prefer, these foods would be considered paleo,
>since they are members of a phylogenetic category that comprises
>mostly paleo foods.
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>Todd Moody
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