--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Paleo Phil <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 
> "Radical Nutrition" is in some ways an
> ironically-named course for
> discussion of the Paleolithic diet, since it was the diet
> of all human
> beings for 99.9% of human existence. The standard modern
> diet is actually
> the truly radical innovation. However, I understand that
> from a modern
> perspective the original diet seems radical.

Given the way the word is commonly used, you are quite correct. However, as "radical" actually comes from the Latin for root, Paleo eating is THE radical diet, as it takes us all back to our roots.

Andrea the Word Nerd