From: Barbara Lamar (blamar@satx.rr.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 20:26:22 MDT
Damien S wrote:
> I'm not sure excluding grains is
> completely paleolithic.
I'm not either.
Also, I'm not sure that the human digestive is ideal for high-protein,
low-carb diets. When it was evolving, humans and their predecessors would
have eaten mostly fruit, leaves, roots, seeds, insects, bird eggs, and small
reptiles and mammals. Although most insects are high in protein, I don't
think there are enough palatable and easy-to-catch ones that they could have
been the main part of the pre-human and early human diet. From the
archaeological evidence I've seen, humans didn't become successful enough
hunters to rely on meat for a large % of their calories until relatively
recently.
As for leaving the carbs out of the diet, I agree completely that refined
carbs such as sugar, honey, and white flour are not healthy. But fruits,
tubers (such as sweet potatoes and taro), and seeds (such as whole wheat and
corn -- although, as someone pointed out, one might wish to eat these
sparingly) would have been the main ingredients of the pre-human and early
human diet.
Barbara
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