On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:08:31 -0400, Todd Moody
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wrote:

>I don't think Amadeus has ever tried to persuade anyone on this
>list to give up meat.  I also don't think he has ever argued that
>meat was not part of the diet of paleolithic diet.  What he does
>argue is that the importance of meat and fat in paleolithic diet
>are overemphasized in books such as Neanderthin, and by those of
>us who eat almost nothing but meat and call our diets "paleo."
>And even though I count myself among those whose diet is
>dominated by meat, I have to admit that Amadeus's position has
>some merit, and furthermore it appears to be gaining ground among
>paleoanthropologists.  I doubt that we will find a simple answer
>to this one.

It seems to me that some recent stories are
revising upwards the total % of meat in these diets; eg:

    http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/120178997v1

Philip Thrift
"Paleofitness"
http://www.paleofitness.com