Don Wiss quoted from

>Newsgroup: rec.food.veg
> ...
>    "There is no reason whatever for saying that this is anything to
do
>with not eating meat. However, it appears that vegetarian mothers
are
>more at risk of having a child with this genital abnormality."
>    The researchers believe crop pesticides ot naturally occuring
                                   1)             2)
>chemicals called phytoestrogens could be involved. They are found in
>many foodstuffs favoured by vegetarians, particularly soya.

Hi Don,
quoting this, you forgot to say your own comment, why to quote this
and which implications it may have regarding paleolithic nutrition.

if its 1) (crop pesticides) then meat eaters (i think most paleofood
followers
eat tons of meat) are affected, because the animals consumed are
normally fed on crops, and can accumulate the pesticides over their
lifetime in their bodies.
(Of course excluded hunters like Ray Audette with his falcon and
rabbits).

if its 2) (natural occuring chemicals called phytoestrogens) then
soya consumers are affected.
In this case it would be interesting how the birth defect rates are
in asian countries, where most soy is consumed by humans
(In USA and Europe soy is eaten mostly  by the domestic animals)

Anything that could cause any birth defect should be of the greatest
concern IMO, because this is probably the greatest fear for all
parents.
If these phytoestrogens are of concern to the prenatal life in the
womb of the mother, then it might be advisable  to get only meat
free of hormone treatment too.

That all speaks for a life an nutrition as natural as possible.

regards

Amadeus






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