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Robert Kesterson <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:36:26 -0600
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:53:12 -0600, Bill Wilcox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Actually, you don't eat 'only' meat.  You eat the fat first, until you  
> are sated, then you eat the meat.

I put meat and fat in the same category.  I just mean paleo isn't animals only, to the exclusion of all plant matter.

>> One look at our teeth compared to  
>> those of other carnivores would seem to indicate that we were not  
>> solely carnivorous.  
>>
> Other carnivores have to kill with their teeth, we don't.  ....
> Our digestive tract is closest to that of a wolf, which is a carnivore.

It seems odd to use our teeth to argue we're not carnivores while using our intestines to argue that we are.  

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  Robert Kesterson
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