Since, we're all getting
philosophical.............................................on the cowboy
movies, the old Indians used to say that the land doesn't belong to the
people, the people belong to the land. I like that idea. If we had only
eaten the food that the land gives us instead of stealing from the earth by
farming grains, we wouldn't have these problem with Neolithic foods.

The idea of behaviour and stress being related to diet is 100% true, but not
related simply to any one factor on a day to day basis.

Firstly, Modern western brain size is 1350g cf Neolithic 1500g.
Multiple nutritional factors at all levels are responsible:
Fats
Proteins/ amino acids (precursors to many neurotransmitters)
Choline
Toxins etc

Ben Balzer



> Read ISHMAEL and MY ISHMAEL by Daniel Quinn for a lucid explanation of
> hunter-gatherer "philosophy." The related web site is www.ishmael.org.
> Actually, hunter-gatherers don't have "philosophy" as we know it. They
don't
> rely on abstracta to find meaning in life as do more sophisticated
civilized
> peoples. Mythology and religion are all they seem to need in this regard.
>
> TG
>
> >So --  my point? Is there a "way to live" or a "philosophy of life" that
> would tend >to make HG's less stressed in general than moderns...