Hi Jim,
 
Maybe I'm in a feisty mood, but if my memory serve me correctly were you the person who referred to an apple as a demon ball of sugar?  Or found yourself crashing and burning in the candy aisle after falling off the paleo wagon?  I personally would rather have a 3 ounce serving of homegrown butternut squash as a side dish to my fresh venison, and as long as I don't suffer any high glycemic consequences. Better to eat some local winter squash in moderation accompanied by fat and protein than to  to crave sugary sweets or worse, alcohol.  I think the human tongue has 5 flavor receptors, and sweet is one of them.  To deny sweet is to deny being human/human physiology. What we resist persists, so if you go zero carb for too long, I think it will come back to bite you in the *@!.   Don't Aboriginal tribes in tropical environments risk life and limb to dip into honeycombs, or climb 75 ft into the air to shake down a durian or wild mango?  I dunno,
 I just think its funny to watch all of us modern cavefolks go round and round with some of these stringent rules about what constitutes the Paleo Way.  Our rules  ultimately  broken here and there  anyway because man (and woman) is fallible.  Just like there are no aetheists in foxholes, I imagine there were no dietary theorists in Neandertimes.   
 
Enjoying these discussions,
Batsheva
 


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Squash is, I believe, a New World plant and therefore I would personally approach it with caution as I do all other New World plants.

Jim