I'm in the same situation. I've very happy so far following the Cordain
version, but I do wonder why potatoes and yams are off the diet. It seems to me
likely that roots and tubers were a very good candidate for the paleo diet. You
can dry them for one thing and use them all winter. And you can cook them by
just burying them in the hot coals. In the case of potatos cooked that way, you
would discard the burned outer shell, thus getting around the problem of
undesirable things in the skins. In the Kitava study
(http://www.paleodiet.com/lindeberg/) "tubers" were a major part of
hunter-gatherer tribes in New Guinea. It doesn't say, but I assume that means
yams. A little starchy carbohydrate would have provided some of the punch
needed for sudden bursts of energy used to chase/kill prey.

John B

Marianne Fuller wrote:

> aren't legumes and potatoes and other tubers and all grains off the list?
> I'm new so I don't know much but I did just read the Audette and Cordain
> books and I thought that's what they said (much to my initial dismay)
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: Jim discussing fat
>
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Richard Geller wrote:
>
> > Or consider lentils. As Todd has argued, the technology required for
> lentils
> > is soaking for a few minutes. You can decide what you think. I think they
> > are an excellent occasional food and do not cause me the problems that
> > legumes do (are they a legume?)
>
> Lentils are legumes.  I think they need to be soaked for longer
> than a few mintues, though.  Overnight is better, and then
> thoroughly rinsed.  I have read of lentils being prepared by
> being immersed in running water in porous baskets until tender,
> then pounded with stones into a kind of meal -- the first hummus.
>
> Todd Moody
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