<div class="gmail_quote">On 30 August 2012 19:41, Max More <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:max@maxmore.com" target="_blank">max@maxmore.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Cereals, potatoes, and legumes are avoided on a paleo diet, vegetables are definitely favored, but paleo types vary considerably when it comes the amount and type of fruits and nuts consumed.<br></blockquote></div><br>Yes, exactly, especially if you are a neo-Atkinsonite like mysef. :-)<br>
<br>But while a rigid eskimo-style nutrition seems unobjectionable from a paleo POV, I do eat plenty of leaves salads and herbs myself, such as lettuce, chicory, basil, spinach, rocket and other I would be not be able to name in English (hey, even my cat chew a little catnip from time to time, so I guess this does not disqualify me as a bona fide carnivorous).<br>
<br>For fruits, I am well aware of their deplorable sugar content :-), but have two criteria:<br>i) favour the kinds of fruit which is either not cultivated or at least not the recent product of caloric-efficient agricultural selection and hybridation, and which have the best ratio between sugar and vitanutrients (for both purposes, wild berries would seem the best around...);<br>
ii) limit the quantity anyway, which is the very exception for a diet where you have limit in the kind but not in the amount of caloric intake.<br>I am not so persuaded about the diffidence against nuts, OTOH.<br><br>At the same time, I am always amazed at the kind of ideological bias and hostility that even some transhumanists (say, Tarrero or Pearce) regularly express on the subject.<br>
<br>I am fully in favour, say, of growing meat (or vegetables, for that matter)) in vials, but I do not really feel like recommending autotrophy or veganism simply because the tech is not there yet.<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>