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