Amadeus:
 >I personally think that seeds (oily and starchy ones) and tubers are the
 >*best* paleo food man can eat. *The* real ecological niche for hominids.
 >Many aspects speak for this - real paleo availability, for millions of years
 >- the good macronutrient composition
 >- the good content of vitamins, minerals and fiber
 >- the good content of brain food (carbohydrate with B-Vitamins)

How about a little reality check on this alleged, past paleo-vegetarian glory
of ours?  Some kind of realistic assessment of what the ratios of some of
these foods might have been certainly would not hurt before we all rush off
to the store to stock up on seeds and grains.   Here is what the Natural Hub
website has to say on the issue:

http://www.naturalhub.com/natural_food_guide_grains_beans_seeds.htm

"Seeds were seasonal. We travelled to seed sources and ate them when they
ripened, generally over a short period of time. 'Cached' seeds are hard to
keep
from becoming mouldy or insect ridden, unlike nuts. They have no hard shell to
deter birds, and many being very small indeed, they are hard to handle. When
the seasonal seed resource was too depleted to be bothered with, we moved
on to another food, and didn't eat seeds until the next harvest season, nearly
a year away. The fact we very recently gained the technical ability to eat
seeds
every day of the year is a major change for our ancient evolutionary genetic
dictated biochemistry."

Peter