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Re: yams and sweet potatoes
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Amadeus Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
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Paleolithic Eating Support List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 19 Nov 2001 05:41:10 -0500
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On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 22:05:44 -0700, toni mettler <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Reading in between the lines, i took it to say that
>sometimes they did eat potatoes especially yam and sweet potatoes because
>they are more "natural."

Sweet potatoes are not related to potatoes.
They come from south america and hunter/gatherers there ate them.
Yam ditto, elsewhere.
Tubers and roots like these are a *basic* food of hunter/gatherers.
The digging stick is a older and more successful tool that the "spear".

Particularly in Africa, our real old paleolithic home.

A.S.

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