RE: FITNESS: Diet and Exercise

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 01:09:35 MDT

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    Damien Sullivan wrote:

    > And tomatoes in particular have got to be much better... I
    > had dreams of growing tomatoes beneath grow-lights in my
    > apartment, but I discovered my stuff/room ratio is too high.

    Strange thing about tomatoes: they are not truly natural (Paleolithic)
    fruits. They did not exist in Europe or Africa until the original European
    American explorers imported them. They did not exist even in Italy, despite
    all the supposed spaghetti sauce in which we think Italians have always
    drowned themselves.

    Tomatoes, especially when cooked, are known to offer some valuable health
    benefits. But does their non-paleolithic origin carry some negative health
    consequences as well? The answer is yes. Tomatoes are extremely rich in
    glutamate, a known excitotoxin. Again more evidence that the human genome is
    not adapted to non-paleolithic foods.

    By the way in my last post to Barbara I wrote about paleolithic humans
    hunting the mastodon. I meant to call it the wooly mammoth. Small but
    important difference.

    -gts



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