I was never on insulin.  My diabetes was diagnosed by an M.D. but before
I could get a complete evaluation, I changed my diet and never went back.
The doctor warned me that because I was not overweight and many of my
symtoms dated to my childhood, there was a good chance that I might
require insulin.

I have submitted NeanderThin to Dr Richard K. Bernstein (diabetes
pioneer and author of "Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution") for his review
and he did comment that I  should recommend far less fruit and fruit
juices.  I felt that since I only recommended fresh fruits and whole
juices which contain a large amount of fiber, that this was sufficent for
most non-diabetics.  In future editions I will add cautions based on his
recommendations.

As Dr. Voegtlyn pointed out in his book "The Stone Age Diet" fresh fruits
and vegetables are not available to "savannah apes" for most of the year.
This seasonality of plant growth is what defines a savannah and prevents
it from becomming a forrest.  Hominids spread to fill this ecological
niche and follow the game that depend on it.  This game must also store
fat to endure the short dry season of tropical climes or the long ice-age
winter (mammoths must have had tremendous fat stores).

I can't imagine an enviroment where a hominid could survive without meat.
Those monkeys and apes who survive on a largely (but never completly)
vegetable diet live in the tropical forrest.  Those few that venture to
the edges of the forrest (such as baboons) eat far more meat and are
active hunters.  Scavanging (of which Falconry can be considered a form
of) is not a very efficient way to gather meat for a human.  Troy pointed
this out to me when the first time he went hawking with me, he dispached
the rabbit with his beating stick before the hawk could get to it.  Even
hunter-gatherer children hunt small game armed with only rocks and
sticks!  Recent isotopic bone anyalisis has shown that early hominids ate
large amounts of meat (see Bower and Lowenstein articles in NeanderThin
bibliography).

Ray Audette


EJCDC wrote:
>
> Ray Audette,
>
> Before adopting a Paleo diet, were you an insulin dependent diabetic?  Todd
> Moody made reference to your need to take insulin and your inability to gain
> weight, even when eating lots of calories.
>