At 02:56 PM 5/7/01 EDT, Charles Alban wrote: >In a message dated 5/6/01 12:46:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >[log in to unmask] writes: > ><< many of the wild ones are quite sweet. >> > >Well, ok. But they are small, and you won't find any pears, apples, oranges >or bananas hanging around in the wild. So the amount of sugar paleo people >would have obtained from this source would have been relatively small. And >"fruit" seems the wrong word for this. We keep talking about fruit and >veggies, but both of these are man made. What they really are are berries, >roots, shoots and leaves. (remember the panda joke......?) Well, I did say berries. Berries make up about 95% of the fruit I eat (occasionally some melon or peach). As for "small"--that seems to be dependant on the type of berry and the amount of rainfall, actually. And to piggy-back, I've fasted off an on for years--sometimes a day, sometimes several--for various reasons. I have done so in very fit and in very unfit states, different stress levels, etc., etc. I have consistently had little energy, so fasting as an energized state is not a universal thing, either. FWIW Dianne