At 08:29 1999-03-26 -0800, Mary wrote:

>Would a  paleo diet  help relieve asthma?

Asthma is a variety of allergy where the bronks get swollen.
Allergies probably have to do with the fact that we are not exposed to
so much bacteria when young, as we are evolutionary expected to be.
There was a very good article about that in New Scientist called "Let Them
Eat Dirt" some time ago: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/980718/features.html
I don't think a paleodiet can change asthma very much (unless it removes
something You are allergic against), but a complete paleo life, preferably
from birth, would help :-)

- Hans