> However, all of this shows a remarkable difference between the genuine > paleo people of the (g)olden days and us: we live rather much predicted or > predictable lives, at least in terms of food. We can plan our meals weeks, > even months ahead. A paleo would in most cases eat from hand to mouth, if > it makes any sense to say it this way. Hello Jose Carlos. Been awhile since I chatted with you. I have been reading quite a bit of research by John K. Williams, an Archeologist who is a field researcher (he actually participates in digs). Although he agrees - for the most part - with general paleo dietary advice; he does take issue with some of the concepts associated with that dietary advice. For instance (a post by him from another list): " The whole concept of hunter-gatherers being "intermittent and unpatterned" is certainly not substantiated in the archaeological record. Our success as a species (H. sapiens) was due partly because we developed logistical subsistence strategies, not opportunistic. In other words, we obsessively planned everything, from the movement of the band to coincide with migrational animals, to the time of day that was allocated to hunting and/or gathering. " " It wasn't as if people just shambled around until they tripped over an antelope. The Paleolithic folks who lived an unpatterned life were Darwinian zeros. " John suggests that unless an individual lived in a climate where he/she could literally wake up in the morning and start eating food that was simply "lying around", there most certainly would have been a considerable amount of predictability in life. It would have been a survival tool. He likes to say that it's not just our big brains, but our *obsessiveness* that secures our survival. Food for thought.