From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 15:04:54 MDT
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 04:24:24PM -0400, gts wrote:
> We haven't discussed fish much in this thread, but cold-water ocean fish is
> probably among the best foods available. I keep a stock of sardines in my
This is something I've wondered about. How could deep-water ocean fish have
been part of the Paleo diet? I guess salmon could be caught on their spawning
runs, if they spawned near our ancestors. But surely catching lots of fish
in the open ocean must have been rather late development... not that I've ever
seen a history of fishing.
> > I did always say grains weren't complete, didn't I?
> Actually, no. You wrote a day or two ago:
> "One test I do is to ask 'what would I be getting if I got all 2000 of my
> calories from this food?' and good breads and pasta hold up decently."
I'm pretty sure I said at the same time that they weren't complete.
'decently' isn't being used as a synonym for 'complete', but as some gut
metric of how good the food is. I look at grains and think "not bad, got the
protein and fiber and iron, need to worry about vitamins A and C and calcium,
but the first two are easy to get..." It wouldn't really do as a sole food
source but then I think most things don't, either because they don't have
enough of something or because they have too much of something. Good grains
make progress. Coca-cola doesn't.
-xx- Damien X-)
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