At 02:04 PM 3/17/01 EST, Charles Alban wrote: > >I meant 1/3:1/3:1/3, or 1/3 each carbo, prot and fat. I think too much >emphasis is put on these ratios. The diet of native paleo peoples would vary >considerably, depending on what they would have available. All you can do is >average it. If anything I would think the fat and protein would be quite >high, since in this case their staple was acorns, which are fairly high in >fat and protein, and a lot of insects and grubs, which are all fat and >protein. Agreed. Trying to put hard-and-fast ratios just doesn't take into consideration season nor years of famine/years of feast. From everything I've read over the years, our bodies don't even work that way--nutrition is something that needs to be balanced over a matter of days and weeks, not hours or meals. Dianne