> I agree with Christy's observations. I have Islamic friends and they find
> Ramadan very hard going, especially when it falls during the time of
> longer daylight hours. The water restrictions must play a part in it
> though.

My family lived for a short while, two summers in a town called Kiruna, far
above the polar circle. There was a rather large colony of Iranians who were
muslims. I believe they made a compromise and decided that sunrise/sunset
occured at the same time as i Mecca.


> I imagine that it would be impossible to discover Paleo mans' frequency of
> eating of paleo man, and modern day hunter-gatherers may be very different
> from our ancestors. I would have thought that the act of eating in itself
> exposes the hunter/gatherer to attack, so maybe those who ate only once a
> day had better survival rates. But I'm still learning, and have no idea
> yet just how much we *do* know about Paleo man. I'm happy to be corrected
> on this point ;-)

Probably they had some leftovers that they ate in the morning and probably
they nibbled things they found during the day. Perhaps not even all evening
meals were fantastic.

> a mindless insistence on the benefits of eating breakfast and 'three meals
> a day'!

I would also think that the three meals a day  tradition comes from when
people were forced out into the fields to work all day. It was convinient
for the landowner and the persons who were assigned to do the cooking that
people came and ate at set hours. Probably people were able to work hard for
many more hours when this was the routine. Modern hunter/gatherers only
worked an average of about 20 hours a week - the rest was playtime. What
farm hand is allowed that?