>
> You are right , don't shun or ignore  science ( that was not the intent of
> my message) just realise that every discovery added to our "knowlegge " is
a
> confirmation of how really ignorant we are and so don't take it too
> seriously.
>  what i see is,  that all this accumulated knowledge since we started the
> quest didn't teach us more on how to be happy or healthy for the matter.
> the more we know ,the sicker we are becoming , there is something
> INTRINSICALLY wrong with that.


My original response in this thread had to do with the importance of eating
a varied diet to ensure adequate intake of nutrients. Somehow that point got
blown out of proportion. I never asserted that the scientific viewpoint is
superior to a hunter-gatherer's intuitive understanding of his environment.
In ROUGE PRIMATE, John Livingston shows that domestication of humans has led
us to be fundamentally lacking in such an an intuitive awareness--a sort of
understanding that any wild animal displays in its interaction with it's
environment. The fact remains though that most of us who are trying to eat a
paleo diet aren't doing so in the context of a traditional paleo lifestyle.
Many of us are unaware of what a natural diet really consists. In this
regard, it is very helpful to understand modern scientific findings about
the nutritional requirements of the human organism when making paleo dietary
choices. In the ancestral environment such considerations would obviously be
unnecessary. Wild animals know inherently what they should eat. Part of the
domestication of humans into the modern world has included the degradation
of such an instinct.

Troy G.

PS- ROUGE PRIMATE is one of the most enlightening books I've ever read. I'd
recommend it to anyone interested in understanding what it means to be
"civilized."