Lorenzo's One paragraph history of the Post Columbian World:

*Before Columbus the warmer countries ate better,  in
Northern Europe people starved in the winter,  and disease
killed many malnourished persons.  Then Potatoes and other
New World food came to the Northern peoples.  The population
in England exploded.  They cut down most of their trees to
make ships and colonized the world.*

If someone knows where there is a list of new world foods
vs. old world foods they could post that.

Furthermore I for one strongly suspect that fruits and
vegetables including leaves keep repeating different
combinations of the same nutrients.

I have posted several items about what we ate raw as kids;

The "raw food only" people think that if something is poison
it will not taste good to a raw food eater.

The Ancient Arizona Indians were thought to have mixed clay
with beans so they would not hurt the stomach when eaten.

Some food for thought----Since hungry or pregnant moderns
will eat "anything and everything"  why should not the
primitives have tried and eaten anything that did not kill
them in fairly short order.

How could the Chinese have discovered some of the unusual
foods they eat-   I think they were starving.    We do know
that millions of Chinese have starved to death in historical
times.

A man in Alaska told me he got horribly sick eating Beaver
livers (plural)  He had Vitamin A poisoning,  he knew it was
the livers.  Polar Bear liver is poison also; but a small
amount is simply a vitamin pill.



Subject: Re: [P-F] Lettuce?


> > I'm not sure it would even occur to H-Gs to even try
> > to eat leaves or stems of
*>
> I'm not sure what the last part of your statement
> means. Do you mean that they would have been poisoned
> by eating the wrong leaves/stems, or that they would
> not have been able to eat a large enough quantity of
> leaves/stems to sustain life?
>