X-Message-Number: 13449 From: Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 17:42:27 EST Subject: "primitive" diets "Primitive" diets are much more complex than ours, containing higher doses of many nutrients and very little trans fat. Atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, type II diabetes, strokes, several other diseases of civilization-- all were pretty rare or unknown in primitive cultures. But the myth that "they all died at 35" will die hard, because people WANT to believe that they can keep eating trans fat and corn syrup as staple foods. (Of course a lot of primitives do die young... just not from atherosclerosis.) Too bad the eco-religion is based on Bambi movies instead of the real hunter-gatherer life; we'd be better off if hunting preserves and wilder types of plant foods became fashionable. A fairly good (but dated) book on this is The Paleolithic Prescription. Can anyone suggest a more recent book? Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13449