>detox vs. adjustment This notion comes up from time to time on various diet lists. The only common denominator I've seen is that any drastic change in diet can cause temporary upset to the digestive system until it adjusts to the new regimen. On a couple of occasions, after following paleo pretty strictly for some time, I succumbed to the old ways, once at an all you can eat sushi bar and one at a Mexican place. I guess I was "detoxing" from paleo. Got a lot of reading done in the bathroom... >rotation diet vs. variety Another recurring theme is the rotation diet, a way of coping with various real or suspected food sensitivities that do not qualify as true allergies. A diet including a wide variety of foods would take care of this automatically. After half a century of eating a very small range of foods, I find I have some resistance to trying new things. Finding them is tough, too. Although there are quite a few vegetables and herbs at the local Albertson's that I've never tried, and a number of types of fish, there is little variety in meat or poultry. The three supermarkets and Trader Joe's in town never have duck eggs. I've seen rabbit once in two years (it was OK). Had a buffalo steak in a restaurant once (good!). The guy who conducts foraging tours in New York can find something like 20 edible plants in a stroll through a city park. I don't fancy myself an outdoorsman ("Ooh, what nice mushrooms!"). After the options in local markets are exhausted, what to do? Bill Dooley