On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:08:31 -0400, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I don't think Amadeus has ever tried to persuade anyone on this >list to give up meat. I also don't think he has ever argued that >meat was not part of the diet of paleolithic diet. What he does >argue is that the importance of meat and fat in paleolithic diet >are overemphasized in books such as Neanderthin, and by those of >us who eat almost nothing but meat and call our diets "paleo." >And even though I count myself among those whose diet is >dominated by meat, I have to admit that Amadeus's position has >some merit, and furthermore it appears to be gaining ground among >paleoanthropologists. I doubt that we will find a simple answer >to this one. It seems to me that some recent stories are revising upwards the total % of meat in these diets; eg: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/120178997v1 Philip Thrift "Paleofitness" http://www.paleofitness.com