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Ray Audette <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 6 Oct 2000 10:41:00 -0500
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> Eating low dense, high volume, high fiber, high vitamin, high mineral --
> well I think that's real paleo.
>

That's real concentration camp.  The figures you quote were gathered
by the
scientists of a famous vegetarian from slave labor camps in order to
figure
out how to keep such people alive and productive as cheaply as
possible.
These vitamin requirements assume a high load of vitamin and mineral
robbing
lectins present when you have a diet consisting of only grains,
legumes or
potatoes.  Real paleo people require far less.

Stefansson, in his experiments for the U.S. military, found that not
only
could solders survive on commercial beef ( Armour) pemmican for long
periods
of time without vitamin or mineral deficiencies, but that it was the
best
cure for scurvy ( vit. C deficiency) available at that time.  His
findings
were later utilized by the Luftwaffe who included a supply of Pemmican
in
their pilots' survival kits.

Speaking of meat, I just saw a program on PBS about Antarctic krill.
One of
several thousand species of krill, this one species combined weight
produced
every summer is 5 times greater than all the humans on Earth.  About
20% of
them are eaten by predators such as seals, whales penguins and fish.
All
the remainder die when the sea freezes at the beginning of the
Antarctic
winter.  Only their eggs survive to await the summer thaw.  That's a
lot of
sushi rotting every year!

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"
http://www.neanderthin.com

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