On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:06 Jim Swayze wrote: >Can I use your collective brains? Sometimes it is helpful to me to summarize, so here goes: > >GRAINS are bad because: >1) They offer no nutritional value except for simple sugars (which aren't healthy in excess because they lead to insulin resistance and the Syndrome X diseases) >2) What may be worse, they contain antinutrients and proteins that cause autoimmune disease (a fact not fully grasped by many paleo devotees) > >The WORST dietary OFFENDERS >Wheat in any form >Trans fats >MSG >Aspartame > Jim, are you asking us to join with you in ranking these foods according to whether they are: (a) genuinely Paleo?, or (b) healthy? Makes a big difference. Don't forget - a Paleo eater in the Paleolithic wouldn't have known what an omega-6 was! Keith