Disclaimer:  I am not an MD

Val wrote:

>I went to Amazon.com and read the reveiws of Neanderthin b/c I'm trying to
>decide if I want to buy it.  There were 13 reviews.  12 were 5 stars, and 1
>was 2 stars.  Has anyone read the 2 star review?  I'm not sure what to
>think about it.

I hve read the review.  I had had similar questions when I read the book,
so I contacted Ray Audette via e-mail so that he could earn his royalty.  I
respect Ray wholeheartedly - but he is not a biochemist.  (There, the
secret is out :-)

Ray's contention is that normal glucose levels are maintained in the
absense of carbohydrates.  This is true, but he did not quite have the
biochemistry mechanism correct.  A very good book that explains the whole
blood glucose/carbohydrate/fatty acid/ketone mechanism is The Ketogenic
Diet: A Complete Guide for the Dieter and Practitioner, by Lyle McDonald.
You might want to give that a read.

As for Neanderthin.  Yes, Ray did prove he was not a biochemist.  But this
does not change the validity of the paleo approach to eating.  The whole
idea of using real ingrediants for ingrediants is so simple, logical and
profound that I have no doubt that Ray will be persecuted by the mainstream
dietary "authorities" for the rest of his life.

James at Penn State