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From: "Todd Moody"
> I'd put tomatoes
> in this category.  They are New World foods

I learned recently that blueberries are a New World fruit, specifically
North American.

>The fact that some of the known problems associated
> with dairy intake are not associated with cheese, or at least not
> with fresh soft cheese, is a further convergence.  I'm arguing
> that it's not a coincidence.

I don't think it's a coincidence, either.

Ray states that dairy is the least problematic of the "forbidden fruits."  I
use his assessment as the justification for the half 'n half I use in my
non-paleo coffee.  Otherwise, I'm dairy-free.  My healthy 85-year-old father
has been a lifelong milk drinker and cottage cheese eater.  Granted he drank
raw milk drawn from the cow spigot till he was in his early 30's, but my
mother who died at age 53 of a heart attack eschewed milk altogether because
she didn't like it.  Probably no correlation here, but I find it interesting
to compare their diets, states of health, activity level, and longevity.

Am I wrong to think that cheeses maybe aren't made from homogenized milk?
Wouldn't that be an unnecessary processing step?  There are arguments that
breaking the protein molecules into smaller fragments changes the way our
bodies handle them.  Pasteurization is another story.

Rather than send another post, let me toss in here as an aside that I
watched "Neanderthal" last night on the History Channel.  Said their diet
was 85% protein (similar to that of modern wolves) and that their digestive
systems were well able to utilize the high amount of protein as judged by
analysis of the coprolite evidence.

Theola