On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:16:50 -0400, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Matt Baker wrote:
>
>> Root vegetables as a group tend to be higher in carbs, though their
>> individual impact on blood sugar levels varies.  They are also a group
that,
>> I take it,  are arguably non-paleo.
>
>Why would root vegetables be non-paleo?


As I said in my perhaps unsubstantiated theory: roots can be
clustered into two groups: low carb/fiber and high carb/fiber ratios,
and that the low group would be more like plaeo roots that may
have been eaten, but the second would be non-paleo.

Philip Thrift
http://geocities.com/paleofitness