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>  The
> exclusion of cooking as part of the definition of what counts as paleo is
> arbitrary and without any empirical or theoretical justification.
>
>   
Cooked meat makes me sick - I have obvious physical symptoms.
Cooked meat first makes everybody sick, in the sense that our bodies 
(blood) show the symptoms of having consumed a pathogen - see 
Kouchakoff's work, and second causes malnutrition due to lack of 
enzymes, vitamins etc.


http://magicbus.myfreeforum.org/archive/digestive-leukocytosis-cooked-food-and-white-blood-cells__o_t__t_628.html
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/539471

The bones of paleolithic man show no evidence of malnutrition, AFAIK.

There is nothing arbitrary about this.

William