Lynnet Bannion wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:47:13 -0700, Bill Wilcox <[log in to unmask]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Hi and welcome.  If you want to get rid of all cravings remove all 
>> plant matter from your diet and only eat from the animal world.  Plant 
>> based foods would be out of season and unavailable at this time 
>> anyway, depending on your hemisphere and distance from the equator.  
>> You could only eat them for a couple weeks during the year.
> Not actually true.  If all-meat diets work best for some people, more 
> power to them. But in our temperate climate, plant foods are available 
> from late spring through late fall, at least six months.  If you are an 
> Inuit, plant foods are seldom available, but most of us
> are not.  I don't really think Paleo man would have turned down fruits, 
> vegetables, herbs, nuts, and mushrooms; they would hardly have walked 
> right past a source of edible and delicious foods.
> 
> What is true is that they would not have eaten the SAME plant foods year 
> around.  Each individual food may only be available for a few weeks.  
> But out of hundreds of edible plants used by hunter-gatherer groups, 
> something was available during the growing season.  If you lived in 
> tropical areas, something would be available at nearly all times of the 
> year.  Eating seasonally is a big help in avoiding food sensitivies, 
> cravings, etc.
> 
>     Lynnet
> 

Paleo man in Australia apparently ate carbs/plant material all year at 
20-40% of total calories.

Steve