Re: Paleolithic Diet (was: A Couple of Newbie Questions)

[Guest guest]

Infant mortality, death in birth, death by trauma took a huge toll.

But those who survived did live to a fairly ripe old age. Someone in

this thread opined that it doesn't make sense to attempt to learn

about the diets of hominids. I disagree. Our evolution stretches

over millions of years. Whatever we ate 2,000 years ago, or even

10,000 years ago has little bearing on how our bodies respond to

various combos and types of carbo, protein, fat and macronutrients.

It's worth spending to support archeologists, anthropologists, etc.

If you want to research this topic (i.e.-- how a cave person not

eaten by wolf, tiger, slain by enemy, etc Pub med gives a huge fair

number of references if you search on " Paleolithic. " Here's one,

which posits a population explosion about 30,000 years ago.

http://tinyurl.com/54s2t

> > I always thought that our ideas about Omega 3's came from recent

> scientific

> > info, not from what we surmise about our ancestors . What our

> ancestors ate

> > isn't a scientific way to go about planning a modern diet and

> doesn't always

> > jibe with the healthiest way to eat from what we now know.

[Guest guest]

Logan,

We have the ability to synthesize just about any food that paleo, et al, may have eaten. So why don't the paleo followers today using that "modern research" that has evolved "the picture of a healthy diet", come up with "balance" bars, whatever, that would emulate that diet, from a paleo standpoint?

BTW, I recall seeing Dr. Walford eat a very large bowl of paleo salad with paleo salsa.

Regards.

----- Original Message -----

From: loganruns73

Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 6:25 PM

Subject: [ ] Paleolithic Diet (was: A Couple of Newbie Questions)

But more and more modern research is evolving the picture of a healthy diet that is remarkably similar, if not virtually identical, to a Mediterrenean Paleolithic diet. Walford's diet is essentially a Mediterrenean Paleolithic diet if you make the appropriate changes to eat only grass-fed meats, low-insulinic carbs and avoid refined oils.That begs the question: if our Paleolithic ancestors ate so fantastically healthy compared to modern diets, why didn't they live longer than 30-40 years of age? It's very unlikely they were eating a lot of excess calories in a warm, temperate climate, or eating past the point of satiety. So surely at least just one [skeleton] managed to defy the negative odds of widespread infections and infant mortality, the two reasons for our dramatic increase in the average lifespan last century.Logan> I always thought that our ideas about Omega 3's came from recent scientific> info, not from what we surmise about our ancestors . What our ancestors ate> isn't a scientific way to go about planning a modern diet and doesn't always> jibe with the healthiest way to eat from what we now know.