From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 21:30:11 MDT
Ramez Naam wrote:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~anthro/paleopathology/drybones/intro.html
"In primitive cultures past and present the most frequent causes of
disability and death are infections, nutritional disturbances, trauma,
and obstetrical, neonatal, and early pediatric problems."
This is not a claim about pre vs post agricultural revolution diets. It is
thus not a claim against paleodiet theory, which states that infant
mortality and death from many diseases were actually greater in the early
neolithic than in the late paleolithic. Some diseases, for example Type II
Diabetes, probably only barely existed at all during paleolithic times. It
is one of the so-called "diseases of civilization." The epidemic in Type II
diabetes is probably a result of the massive strain that modern cereal-based
diets place on the pancreas.
More generally, from some of the posts you've written here, I think you may
be under the false impression that paleodiet theory prescribes a diet that
does not take advantage the modern medicine, (e.g., that one should not take
antibiotics or vitamin supplements). If that is your view of paleodiet
theory then it is incorrect. Paleodieters are not Christian Scientists. :)
-gts
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