From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 18:02:25 MDT
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> It's worse than that--even his imaginary story isn't really
> helpful. The fact is, Mr. Hugh M. Species did not do "just
> fine" on fish, fowl, etc. In fact, he was probably near
> starvation most of the time, and just managed to reproduce
> once or twice before dying in his twenties of disease or
> injury.
You're missing the point, Lee. In those pre-medical-science times, that was
doing just fine.
The question is whether replacing calories from paleolithic foods like meat,
fish, fruits and vegetables with calories from non-paleo foods like milk and
bread did anything to improve human health. The archeological evidence is
that people became much less healthy at the dawn of agriculture.
-gts
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