<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Harvey Newstrom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@harveynewstrom.com" target="_blank">mail@harveynewstrom.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Dan <<a href="mailto:dan_ust@yahoo.com" target="_blank">dan_ust@yahoo.com</a>> wrote,<br>
<div>> This also seems to fit some of the archaeological evidence too. There seems to<br>> have been many big kills where there was even waste, but these were not everyday<br>> or even every month affairs, it seems.<br>
<br></div>This is my problem with the Paleo diet. The archeology does not fit a<br>high-fat diet. Everything I read shows that hunter/gatherers got more<br>of their diet from gathering than hunting. Big game meat was not a<br>
daily occurrence. And even when big game was bagged, it was not<br>high-fat as seen in today's deliberately fattened meats. Therefore, I<br>do not believe that high-fat meals are a good emulation of a paleo diet,<br>
even if eaten rarely.<br></blockquote>
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<div>There are a range of opinions about this in the paleo community. As a 30-year advocate of low-fat eating, I have made a huge shift in deciding that animal fats are not a bad thing (so long as they are not combined with high levels of carbohydrates). Have you read Loren Cordain's analyses of the paleo diet? Have you read the more high-fat-friend paleo analyses, such as that by recent, well-informed poster to this list, J. Stanton? Additionally, regardless of the history, have you read Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories?</div>
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<div>I would add that there is no one Paleo diet. What human ate varied considerably depending on the time period we're talking about and on their location. Some people ate almost exclusively animal meat. Others a more varied diet. I'm not aware of *any* vegetarian paleo people.</div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br>I also doubt the lack of grains in the diet. Archeological evidence<br>shows that grains were routinely gathered and used in paleo times. </blockquote>
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<div>That contradicts everything I've seen. I'd be interested in the evidence that you mention. We had this discussion a few months back. The skeptics of paleo could only come up with rather weak evidence of apparently rare consumption of any kind of grains.</div>
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<div>Whatever our differences on these issues, can I assume that you would agree that the vast increase in consumption over the last few decades of refined carbohydrates -- especially high-fructose corn syrup -- is a very bad thing for health?</div>
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<div>--- Max</div>
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