From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Apr 18 2003 - 16:57:35 MDT
Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
>> gts wrote,
>>
>>> If you do not accept the argument from evolutionary
>>> science that we are best adapted to a diet devoid
>>> of grain and dairy and legumes then obviously you won't
>>> accept the notion that the burden of proof should be
>>> on those who advocate a deviation from the paleodiet.
>
> Is this a claim that our paleo ancestors did not understand, were not
> around and did not use grains and legumes that grow wild?
That is correct, Samantha. Grains are not edible without processing and
would not have been eaten by ancestral humans.
See:
http://www.thepaleodiet.com/articles/Cereal%20article.pdf
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Apr 18 2003 - 17:08:26 MDT