On Sun, 8 May 2005 14:52, nicole wrote: >I've found that I have to have some form of starch in >my diet to feel satified and content. Starches from roots would have been a regular part of Palaeo diets in Africa, though we can agree that starches from grains would have been a negligible part of any Palaeo diet. There was a paper published about 6 months ago by Dawn Youngblood, a census of food plants native to the Karoo area which is where the well-known Hottentots and Bushmen lived. The paper includes illustrations of a few plants and these include many roots, including corms, tubers and bulbs. Some of these were big and abundant. I can't believe such nourishing food sources would have been ignored - ever. If you look at the Wrangham hypothesis, you will find a case for the roots providing the drive for the evolution of Homo sapiens, not meat. I don't see why 'low carb' should be the criterion for Palaeo foods. If you're a Palaeo purist, you'd go for naturally-grown tubers over feedlot meat or eggs from hens fed on grains any day. Keith