From: Greg Jordan (jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 09:59:07 MDT
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, gts wrote:
> I do not count calories, nor do I count carbs. There are no reasons to count
> anything on a paleodiet. I eat until I'm full and the carbs and calories
> take care of themselves. No hassles, no worries.
Last I heard, nutritional calories in excess of your activity requirements
are turned by the body into fat, regardless of the source. So you may not
be counting calories, but either your caloric intake/activity level is
balanced, or you are getting fat.
> As for vegetarians who might object, well, I don't consider vegetarians to
> rate as diet experts in the first place. Most modern vegetarians object to
> the consumption of animal foods on the philosophical grounds that the
> killing of animals adds unneeded suffering to the world, which in my mind
> puts them in the same category with PETA. Vegetarians can no longer call on
What category is that? I am a vegetarian, but I don't agree with PETA's
more extreme positions. They are to animal rights what Operation Rescue
was to anti-abortionism. But anyway, sympathy for animals is an ethical
position not a dietary-science one.
> evolutionary evidence to support their claims, thanks to recent discoveries
> of meat-eating hominids dating back millions of years. Some vegetarians can
> object based to the fattiness and unnatural balances of nutrients of the
> meat consumed in the typical American diet, but one is not limited to eating
> only to fatty corn-fed beef.
You might also look into the hormones & other crap put into the average
American livestock animal. Even if you're not a vegetarian, you might look
into alternative meats available in health stores, from animals raised
more intelligently with regard to the health of the people who will be
eating them.
If you want a real paleo-diet, try eating a human.
gej
resourcesoftheworld.org
jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu
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