Fiber is not for bowel movements but to nourish the microbiome  that's
where health and fiber concerns focus today. If you don't eat a lot of
coarse vegetables, you can use a packaged fiber blend. Jerusalem artichokes
and jicama are good sources for prebiotic fiber

Meat-only cultures must have an adapted microbiome or have eaten the
contents of the entrails of their game more than we assume

Great apes eat 30'lbs of veg and fruit a day. A lot of fiber!

Allan in WV

On Monday, December 28, 2015, Tracey Baldrey <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Yes, on a diet predominantly of protein and fat I couldn't see where such a
> figure was coming from either.  I wonder where Mercola got that from?
>
> Many thanks for your responses.
>
> Best wishes
> Tracey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paleolithic Eating Support List [mailto:[log in to unmask]
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> On Behalf Of Geoff Purcell
> Sent: 28 December 2015 13:34
> To: [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> Subject: Re: Paleo Fibre
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> The 150g a day figure is absurd and cannot reflect a genuine palaeolithic
> diet such as our early modern man ancestors had. More than likely no fibre
> is needed at all. Those eating a 100% animal food diet, raw or otherwise,
> report not needing any  fibre to make bowel movements. Palaeo peoples on
> ice-sheets would have had only small opportunities to eat fibre, such as in
> the summer, if at all.
> Geoff
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> > Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 11:25:16 +0100
> > From: [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> > Subject: Re: Paleo Fibre
> > To: [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> >
> > Hi Jim
> >
> > Well - I'm no expert so, no, I probably can't help you understand it
> better.  Dr Mercola might
> (
> http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/11/25/9-fiber-healt
> h-benefits.aspx) haha... But that doesn't explain my original question of
> where the 150 mg per day of fibre did come from in our ancestors!!  Or
> where
> that figure even came from?
> >
> > Best wishes
> > Tracey
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paleolithic Eating Support List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask] <javascript:;>] On Behalf Of Jim
> Swayze
> > Sent: 27 December 2015 18:41
> > To: [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> > Subject: Re: Paleo Fibre
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> > Hi Tracey. Merry Christmas from Texas. I don't understand the value of
> dietary fiber. Can you help me understand?  Great to see activity in this
> list. Jim Swayze
> >
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