I have given up chocolate which was the hardest thing ever for me to do.
Now I no longer crave it.  I am almost off of coffee now too.  I am to a
ratio of 5:1; 5 parts pine needle tea and 1 part coffee.  In my opinion,
junk food is a habit, not a need.

Trish

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:40:43 -0700 Arthur McConnachie
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
> 98% of Americans don't have the discipline to give up the goodies of
> civilization, so whether the government or media supported the paleo
> way of
> eating is irrelevant.
>
> Arthur
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Raymond, Charles E. x1280" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 10:10 AM
> Subject: [P-F] My two cents
>
>
> > If the U.S. went Paleo, IMO, I don't think it would be without a
> fight
> from
> > the big dairy companies, the agricultural companies, etc. I
> believe you
> > would begin to see the political action groups in D.C. threatening
> to pull
> > donations and lobbyists scurrying around trying to fix the
> "problem". I
> > think you would also see lots of news reports about the dangers of
> such a
> > diet, whether real dangers existed or not, people who half
> followed such a
> > diet and then became severely ill, etc. Unfortunately it seems
> that he who
> > has the most money, sets the governments' policies here in the
> states.
> > Since discovering the Paleo diet, I now laugh when I watch the
> news
> reports
> > that lament the declining physical state of the U.S. population.
> The
> > reporters will make statements like, "Despite following low-fat
> diets and
> an
> > increase in exercise, Americans are still getting fatter." All we
> need to
> do
> > is get away from the low-fat diets, kick processed foods to the
> curb, and
> we
> > would be well on our way to improved health. Again, IMO, the
> government
> > don't want you to know that, they would loose too much money if
> they
> > offended the big business men. I do see a positive light in all of
> this.
> > With the availability of the Internet, and the rate at which
> information
> is
> > becoming available via the net, people will begin to question all
> of these
> > things. In the past, we kind of had to take their (government)
> word for
> it,
> > those days are gone thanks to technology.
> > As far as mainstream media is concerned, I doubt you will see many
> of the
> > popular magazines, touting the benefits of a paleo diet any time
> soon. The
> > fad is still low-fat, high carb diets, almost every bodybuilding
> publication
> > emphasizes the need for carbs (the bad kind) for muscular growth,
> and
> > maximum training performance. They fail to mention the need for
> steroids
> in
> > order to gain the freaky size the muscle magazines display. The
> media will
> > continue to be the lap-dogs for the government, the Internet is
> currently
> > the only source I'm aware of, at least in the States, where you
> can find
> > both sides of a story. Having been a weightlifter for over half of
> my
> life,
> > I've read the gamut of diet and health books available. They all
> tend to
> > repeat one another and most often the advice or routines are
> completely
> > absurd for normal, non-drug using athletes. That's a different
> topic for a
> > different list, however I do own a copy of Lyle McDonald's book -
> The
> > Ketogenic Diet - an excellent book, one of the best I've read.
> Lyle and I
> > communicate every now and then, he even signed my copy of his
> book. The
> next
> > book that I am going to purchase is the NeanderThin book, is it
> available
> in
> > bookstores or over the net only? It's actually Lyle's book that
> started to
> > make me think about current diet trends, I had really never
> thought much
> > about diet until then. I lifted and I ate, as long as I didn't get
> fat, I
> > wasn't concerned about my diet too much. Then Lyle's book made me
> think,
> > then a Dr. Dave Lewandowski, has pointed me in the Paleo-diet
> direction.
> > I've read some of the information at the paleo-diet website and
> look
> forward
> > to receiving the future Paleofood  Digests. This diet, along with
> proper
> > exercise makes perfectly logical sense. Sorry for the
> long-windedness, I
> > tend to ramble at times.
> >
> > Chuck
> >

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