On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 10:08, Ken Stuart wrote: >On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 15:00, Jim Swayze wrote: > >>I don't believe that milk in any form -- other than human milk >>for the first few years of your life -- is paleo. Perhaps partial >>adaptation has occurred in certain populations. >> >>Cordain: "Hominins, like all mammals, would have consumed >>the milk of their own species during the suckling period. >>However, after weaning, the consumption of milk and milk >>products of other mammals would have been nearly impossible...." > >This seems to be based on Cordain's principle of "what did they eat", >rather than Ray's principle of "what could you eat with a sharpened stick". > >It seems to me that old-style shepherds and dairy farmers don't need more than a >sharpened stick. Ray's 'sharpened stick' is a useful guide, but it's not applicable simply to all possible foods. Dairy products might not have needed much more than a shapened stick, but milking wild goats, camels, sheep, horses or cattle would have required some domestication - fences, bails or similar and cheese making would require containers and probably some heating and / or cooling. So, I can't think that cheese is a palaeo food. On the other hand, it appears that many humans have adapted to goats' milk, even though the numbers adpated to cows' milk are fewer. Keith