The problems is that these rules individually give inconsistent results. Example: tomatoes are edible raw and are not grains, but our paleolithic ancestors didn't eat them (because they are New World foods). Or: oats are edible raw but are grains as well. As for the Master Rule of eating only what our paleolithic ancestors ate, the problem is that we don't know in detail what they ate, and probably never will. Hence the "edible raw" rule is supposed to tell us what they *could have* eaten, but it doesn't tell us whether they actually did. Again, since oats grow everywhere and are edible raw, our paleo ancestors could have eaten them. But did they? Whoa. New World foods weren't available to paleolithic people? Hmm..this is a very eurocentric statement, as we know that people were living in the "new world" during paleo era, and obviously ate the foods that were available to them. So New World foods were not available to paleo folks of *Europe*... but WERE available to people who lived in the land to the west. That's also like saying we should not eat buffalo or elk because these are New World foods. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com