From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 16:05:52 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Think of it as a two-cycle step:
>
> 1) Early humans adapt toward metabolisms making better use of the
> available paleolithic diet. I.e., metabolism optimized for presented
> diet.
>
> 2) Modern humans deduce which modernly possible diet provides the
> best fuel for the evolved metabolism. I.e., diet optimized for
> presented metabolism.
Exactly.
Someone has mentioned insects. If one really wants to be a paleodiet purist
then yes, insects are on the menu. But few people are that fanatical about
it.
On the other hand I do know some paleodiet purists who are willing to risk
infectious disease by eating raw meat. Evidence that we are not adapted to
cooked meat: meat produces carcinogenic heterocyclic amines when cooked over
a fire. Paleodieters who prefer cooked meat (most of them) therefore try to
broil or boil it, or at least to cook it very slowly and lightly over a very
low fire so as reduce the production of heterocyclic amines.
-gts
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