On Fri, 31 May 2002 18:38:54 -0700, Ken Stuart <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>The Paleo "diet" consists of merely removing from the diet anything that
>could not have been eaten in the paleo era, due to the lack of
>technology back then.

A definition is not as simple as this, since this technology cannot exclude
cooking. There were the two technologies -- hunting (stone tools)
and cooking (stone hearths, pits),
the environment (animals and plants around them and the
degree they aquired both), and the lack of technology for
cultivation.

>However, one is free to consider all information in formulating your own
>personal diet plan, and in fact, Drs Eades' book "Protein Power Life
>Plan" takes the Paleo Diet and adds to it all that the Eades know about
>physiology and the health benefits and risks of various foods.

I am more in agreement with this "pragmatic" approach too.


Philip Thrift
http://www.geocities.com/paleofitness