Ashley, you appear to be implying that native Americans are similar to
Paleo Ancestors.

Plus the animals that roamed in the Paleo period were quite different
than those of our native American ancestors.   Buffalo were mostly
herded then, and groomed, and may be typical of the grass fed beef we
had today.  They didn't have as many predators then, their environment
was much different than the paleo period.

I do agree that a caveman would eat a fat animal if that's all he had..
But I think the fat animals were the exception and not the norm..
animals back then were leaner than the buffalo of the wild west. The
diets they ate were different.  

I simply think Cordain is taking it from a nutritional component,  the
animals of that period most likely contained this much Omega 6s and
3s... as opposed to the animals today that contain twice/three times as
much of 6's to 3's..... as opposed to what one would have eaten, how it
was eaten etc.

Plus I seriously doubt you would have suffered "Rabbit Starvation" even
following his diet to the T.    But I'm not your Doctor, nor am I a
doctor, I just find that claim a little extreme.    

But that's just me. 

Ron Stanevich, PE
District One, Design Engineer

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Subject: Re: Cordain Bashing why??? RE: Newbie Question - Organ Meats

On Jul 31, 2008, at 2:46 pm, Jessica Baker wrote:
> And I agree, eating LEAN meats is the way to go.  The animals our  
> paleo
> ancestors ate were NOT the big fat beasts we have today, therefore  
> sticking
> to lean meats is the best way to eat paleo, IMO.

Jessica,

Like Jim points out, the fact that many paleo animals were leaner than  
their equivalents today does not mean that paleo man preferred the  
lean bits.  They didn't have a choice how much fat was on their  
animals!  If it was the case that they preferred lean meat, surely we  
would have bred animals to be *leaner* not *fatter*?

The excellent article Guts and Grease[1] describes the many ways  
native americans got fat into their diet.  For example:

> Sometimes the Indians selected only the fatty parts of the animal,  
> throwing the rest away. "On the twenty-second of July," writes  
> Samuel Hearne, "we met several strangers, whom we joined in pursuit  
> of the caribou, which were at this time so plentiful that we got  
> everyday a sufficient number for our support, and indeed too  
> frequently killed several merely for the tongues, marrow and fat."


They definitely didn't prize lean meat.

Ashley



[1] http://www.westonaprice.org/traditional_diets/native_americans.html