The Paleolithic Diet Page What the Hunter/Gatherers Ate
Source
This is NOT what the Paleolithic
Diet consisted of!!
See an excellent
article in the Wall Street Journal -- endorsing the
Paleolithic diet.
www.PaleoDiet.com
- The Paleolithic Diet Page
What the Hunter/Gatherers Ate
Index to Sections Below
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Paleolithic Nutrition: Your Future Is In Your Dietary
Past is an article Jack Challem wrote for Nutrition
Science News: April 1997.
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An Interview with Ward Nicholson now has three
parts on the web. Good overview of man's diet over the
past 65 million years. Long but highly recommended
reading. First published in Chet Day's "Health &
Beyond" newsletter. Now part of a very comprehensive
Beyond
Vegetarianism site. Every argument that your
vegetarian friends use to avoid meat for health reasons
is debunked here.
- Tamir Katz's
Paleolithic Diet Information page has been put up
by a medical student at SUNY Stony Brook. He has a
knack of clearly and directly explaning things.
Excellent for friends and relatives of paleo eaters who
are wondering why you eat weirdly.
- In On
the Benefits of Ancient Diets Staffan Lindeberg
discusses how the Western diet causes health problems.
Also an overview of his Kitava study. Staffan now has a
home page
Utbildningarom prevention, though initially only in
Swedish.
- A diet high in phytic acid, which can be found in
whole grains (it's in the bran) and beans like soy, is
very detrimental for mineral absorption. Phytic acid
strongly binds to minerals like calcium, iron, zinc and
magnesium to form insoluble salts, phytates, which
precipitate from the body. Staffan Lindeberg has
written a
summary on phytic acid.
- Two common foods clearly are Neolithic and avoiding
them is key to a paleo diet. Here are link pages for
avoiding them:
Gluten-Free Page and
No-Milk Page.
- There are some disorders that can be controlled
somewhat by using a paleo diet. Here are link pages on
three of them:
Autism
and Multiple
Sclerosis and
Rheumatoid
Arthritis.
- JoAnn Betten of the PaleoFood mailing list and I
have collected many recipes at
www.PaleoFood.com.
All have no grains, no gluten, no dairy, no
beans/legumes, no refined sugar, or other Neolithic
foods.
- Ashton Embry has an essay
Paleolithic Nutrition and Multiple Sclerosis and
another
Paleolithic Nutrition. He's the leading proponent
on the Net for using dietary intervention to control
MS.
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The Evolution of Human Nutrition by Barry Bogin is
interesting reading which covers themes like homo
erectus and up to date findings, and the relation to
nutrition.
- In William Calvin's
The Ascent of Mind, Chapter 8 he discusses why he
thinks that the Acheulian hand-ax (the oldest of the
fancy stone tools of Homo erectus) was really a "killer
frisbee." He argues that natural selection for throwing
accuracy, which requires brain machinery, is the
evolutionary scenario for bootstrapping higher
intellectual functions. Another of his pages on
throwing theory.
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Pemmican: Recipes, Stories and Stores is a link
page with more on this than you've seen before.
- Lynne Olver at the Morris County Library has
assembled
The
food timeline, which gives you the history of
Neolithic foods. Includes paleo foods, like animal
domestication and when some foods where first noted in
the literature.
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Eating is an essay by Todd Moody.
- The Meat,
Leaves and Berries Page is a "paleo" like diet put
up by Dan John. But dairy products are allowed.
Couldn't tell much, as many pages came up blank with
ActiveX turned off.
- Dental
Microwear Web Site is on the study of the
microscopic scratches and pits that form on a tooth's
surface as the result of its use. See the page on
references. Some are evidences of past diet.
- Mary G. Enig, Ph.D., an expert of international
renown in the field of lipid chemistry, has a
Trans Fat
InfoWeb Page. A simple introduction to trans fatty
acids. Trans
Fatty Acid Fact Sheet is a short page listing the
negative highlight of this food.
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Factors that Inhibit Calcium Absorption is an
article pointing out the non-paleo things we do, mostly
food related, that are negative for calcium absorption.
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The Cholesterol Myths by Uffe Ravnskov, M.D., Ph.D.
argues that too much animal fat being dangerous is a
myth. This is a collection of essays, complete with the
critical references.
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The Cholesterol Myth is an article by Thomas J.
Moore from his book, Heart Failure. Argues that diet
has hardly any effect on your cholesterol level; the
drugs that can lower it often have serious or fatal
side effects; and there is no evidence at all that
lowering your cholesterol level will lengthen your
life.
- Dr. Joseph Mercola has an extensive web site on
alternatives to traditional medicine. A hodge podge of
different things. On his
Low Grain Guide To Health he has a few that are
relevant to paleo eating. At bottom take link to his
Sugar Index Page. Also see
The Health Benefits of Grassfed Animal Products.
Also see
Low Grain and Carbohydrate Diets Treat Hypoglycemia,
Heart Disease, Diabetes Cancer and Nearly ALL Chronic
Illness.
- There is ample evidence that
grain
consumption is behind many cancers. Here is a quick
analysis of the connection.
- Jack Challem has written
Alpha-Lipoic acid: Quite Possibly the "Universal"
Antioxidant and meat is the best source.
- paleofood.de
is a site all in German, but
PaleoFood.Info is their English version. Here is
Loren Cordain's
Food Pyramid.
- Stacie Tolen tells the story of her family going
paleo on
Cave Man Diet and Natural Living Pages. Also some
recipes.
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To Crack a Coconut tells how this is done in
Thailand, without fancy tools, then gets into pressing
milk, and some recipes.
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Cooking Clan of the Cave Bear Style! is a
student experiment in boiling water in a skin pot over
a fire (or not...)
- Aris Stathakis has a page
How To Make Real South African Biltong - a
traditional South African dried meat.
- Brett Saks, B.S., D.C. has a page
The Adverse Effects of Wheat and Other Grains.
Based on his clinical experiences.
- Chet Day sent a copy of the article by Robert
Crayhon (Interview
with Loren Cordain) to the Rea Centre in London, a
place claiming to be proponents of a paleo diet. You
can check out their counterpoint at
Hunter
Gatherer Paradigm Examined in New Light. It argues
that our ancestors were not big meat eaters. Argues
that since men are the scientists that hunting has been
exaggerated out of proportion, and that gathering was
the primary source of food. Chet Day also asked some
questions and created
The Rea
Center Interview: Paleo Nutrition, Veganism, and More.
Incredibly wordy with little content.
- Philip Thrift has a page on
Principles of Paleofitness. He follows NeanderThin
and works out daily before eating.
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Blindness, Mad Cow Disease and Canola Oil by John
Thomas points out the negatives of canola oil.
- The
Venison Processing FAQ covers everything from
choosing your target to recipes.
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The Paleolithic Diet is Bob Hodgen's story of his
experiences on NeanderThin. Includes short explanation.
- Krispin Sullivan has written
The Lectin
Report. A good place to start to learn about these
toxic proteins in Neolithic foods.
- Buried in the middle of
The
Revised Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen for Effecting Lysis
in Solid Tumors one can find their diet
recommendations for tumor control. It has a paleo diet
orientation. Protein is 35%, preferably Omega 3 rich.
Carbohydrates (also 35%) are only vegetables and fruit,
no beans, bread, potatoes, or any grain. Then dietary
and supplemental forms of fat should provide 20-30% of
(daily) calories.
- Aletheia Price has
Edible Insects. Very comprehensive. Read the "About
the Author." [site gone?]
- Weird &
Different Recipes is a page by Bert Christensen
that includes several insect recipes and other foods
that a Paleolithic dieter may have eaten.
- Zachary Huang has put up his
Bug-Eating
Page. Mostly pictures of people eating giant
silkworms and mealworms. Also see his other links.
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Vad är Paleodiet? is a site in Swedish put up by
Hans Kylberg.
- Buried in a tutorial at The Institute For Ice Age
Studies we find a section on Strategies for Survival.
Hunting and gathering start at
Scheduling and Mobility.
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Plant-animal subsistence ratios and macronutrient
energy estimations in worldwide hunter-gatherer diets.
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Origins and Evolution of Human Diet is an academic
web site devoted to discussion of evolution and the
human diet. Especially don't miss the articles on the
conferences link! And in them especially see the
Boyd Eaton one!
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Hunters and Gatherers Anthropology is a course
taught by Raymond Hames at U. of Nebraska. Includes
lecture notes on the book
The Foraging Spectrum which outlines the important
research issues, theory, and problems in
hunter-gatherer research. His site has many other
sub-pages that shouldn't be missed.
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How to Carve an Elephant is a chapter in Making
Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of
Technology by Kathy D. Schick and Nicholas Toth (1993).
A cute writeup on some archaeologists that showed that
a dead elephant can be carved up using the simple tools
that were available 1.5 - 1.9 million years ago.
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Prehistoric Diet and Nutrition is a class at
Indiana U. taught by Jeanne Sept, Professor of
Anthropology.
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Plant-animal subsistence ratios and macronutrient
energy estimations in worldwide hunter-gatherer diets.
by Cordain et. al. is an abstract of an analysis
showing that whenever and wherever it was ecologically
possible, hunter-gatherers consumed high amounts
(45-65% of energy) of animal food.
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The Changing Nature of Inuit Nutrition and Dietary
Patterns by James H. Boschma III goes into detail
on the dietary patterns of the Inuit.
- Cabrillo College's Anthropology Department has
Monte Verde A Pre Clovis Site, which among other
things, discusses the foods these early Native
Americans ate.
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From the Neolithic Revolution to Gluten Intolerance:
Benefits and Problems Associated with the Cultivation
of Wheat, by Luigi Greco, Department of Pediatrics,
U. of Naples. A history of gluten intolerance and why
it is so common.
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Investigation of the Role of Wild Plant Foods in
Pre-Agrarian Europe is a project currently being
undertaken by Sarah Mason at the University College
London.
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Plains Archaic people discusses the
hunter-gatherers of the American plains. These
PaleoIndians big-game hunters exploited a
narrow-spectrum, focal resource base (one, maybe two
animal species depending on location - e.g., reindeer
in north; limited range of small game; few if any
plants). Long and technical.
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Underwater storage techniques preserved meat for early
hunters demonstrates how PaleoIndians living in the
Great Lakes region at the end of the last Ice Age
preserved meat from large animal kills by storing it
underwater.
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Flints and Stones: Real Life in Prehistory is an
exhibition at the Museum of Antiquities on the world of
the late stone age hunter gatherers in Britain. Only
three pages are food related:
The hunter gatherer way of life is heavy on the
tools used in Britain.
Tasks and activities around the home fire has some
on food processing.
Could you survive today as a hunter gatherer? has
pictures of collectable foods and you select whether it
is edible or not. In three parts: fungi, foliage, and
nuts & berries. More than half of the options are
poisonous.
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Health Issues and Trans Fat by Mary G. Enig
discusses how it was claimed in 1958 that these were
culprits in heart disease, but the edible oil industry
quickly squelched this information.
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Do dietary lectins cause disease? is an editorial
in the British Medical Journal which suggests that
lectins, which are high in cereals, potatoes, and
beans, may be behind some autoimmune diseases.
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You Are What You Eat: New Theories About Rheumatoid
Arthritis is a newsreport about an article in the
British Journal of Nutrition. The authors argue that
their theory implicating diet needs more research.
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The Changing Nature of Inuit Nutrition and Dietary
Patterns by James H. Boschma III.
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The Southern Greek Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and
Neolithic Sequence at Franchthi is a cave where the
deposits revealed what the occupants ate over the
years.
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The Australian Native Food Industry gets into
Australia's unique edible plants and animals that could
form the basis for a substantial and sustainable
industry.
-
Human Evolution Home Page and Syllabus is for a
course by Dr. John Langdon, of the University of
Indianapolis. There are 35 lectures available, some of
them quite interesting and relevant to paleodiet
interests, e.g., lectures 14, 18, 20, 21, and 24.
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Stone Age Habitats hasn't much to do with food, but
there is mention of cooking hearths, and a couple nice
graphs. But for some reason the time lines are flipped.
- Fattening cattle with corn changes the lipid
balance and is clearly not the natural diet for a grass
eating cow. In
Simple change in cattle diets could cut E. coli
infection researchers have found that when cattle
were fed hay or grass for just five days before
slaughter, much less E. Coli cells were present in the
animal's feces and virtually all surviving E. coli
bacteria were not acid-resistant and were killed by
human stomach acid.
- A
Hunter-Gatherer Bibliography compiled by students
of James W. Helmer Department of Archaeology, U. of
Calgary. 112K.
- J. Ned Woodall, Department of Anthropology, Wake
Forest U., teaches a course on Problems with the Past:
Controversial Topics in the Cultural and Physical
Evolution of Humans. Here is the
reading list.
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`First farmers' with no taste for grain is an
article by Mike Richards on the use of meat in ancient
British Isles diets. The suggestion is that the Brits
were depending primarily on meat for their nutritition
up to around 2000 B.C.
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`Man the Hunter' returns at Boxgrove. Mark Roberts,
the Director of the Boxgrove Project, provides evidence
that the hominids of the Lower Palaeolithic period did
hunt their meat.
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In sorrow shalt thou eat all thy days Peter Rowley-Conwy,
Archaeology at the University of Durham, argues that
many hunter-gatherers never wanted to farm.
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No carefree life for Mesolithic people.
Hunter-gatherers worked much harder for their living
than has previously been thought, writes Rob Young.
- Neanderthal bone chemistry provides food for
thought. Using bone-chemistry analyses, a team
determined the Neandertals must have feasted on meat.
Neanderthal diet at Vindija and Neanderthal predation:
The evidence from stable isotopes is the full text
of the article.
- Kristin D. Sobolik is Assistant Professor of
Anthropology and Quaternary Studies at U. of Maine. She
has a
home page listing her publications, many of which
are on prehistoric diets.
-
Blueberries May Restore Some Memory, Coordination and
Balance Lost with Age is a study from Tufts U.
which found that blueberries make rats feel young
again.
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Human Skeletons and Society in Prehistoric Italy
basically shows how various ills increased in the
Neolithic age. The best parts are the graphs showing
the disorders they found and how they increased as the
food become more away from a Paleolithic diet. This is
the link to
infectious disease and childhood stress.
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Loren Cordain, Ph.D. has his interests, awards,
publications, etc. listed on a web page.
- An abstract:
Reducing the serum cholesterol level with a diet high
in animal fat. by Newbold HL.
- The Department of Archaeology at the University of
Glasgow has a module on Diet, health and populations.
Also "Reconstruction of diet" as an optional field of
study. These are part of a
masters degree in Archaeological Science.
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The Food Insects Newsletter site includes selected
on-line articles from back issues. Probably more paleo
than most people can handle.
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Bugfood! is by the U. of Kentucky Department of
Entomology. Discusses insects as food and insect snacks
from around the world.
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Nutritional Value of Various Insects per 100 grams
is part of the Iowa State Entomology site. Also see
recipes and where to buy.
-
Animal Protein Consumption Associated With Bone Density
in Elderly Women. This isn't really new. Herta
Spencer back in the 80's showed that meat helped if an
adequate amount of calcium was consumed. Studies
showing that protein was bad used isolated,
fractionated animo acids from milk or eggs.
- In
Bread blamed for short sight Jennie Brand Miller
links the dramatic increase in myopia in developed
countries on childhood over-consumption of bread.
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Meat Eating More Healthy in Prehistoric Times
discusses the healthier fats in wild meat. Loren
Cordain's team compared the muscle, brain, bone marrow
and fat of wild animals with those of cattle.
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The Caveman Diet by Jeanie Davis is an MSN article
touting the benefits of grass fed bison.
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Cave men diets offer insights to today's health
problems, study shows. But, you have to eat wild
meat, which has a healthier ratio of omega-6 to omega-3
fatty acids.
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High 'Good' Cholesterol Level Lowers Stroke Risk is
a news report highlighting that high HDL is the only
indicator of lower stroke risk. However, it fails to
mention that a low-carb diet is the only diet that
increases HDL.
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Neanderthals Were As Smart As Us reports on new
research that reveals that Neanderthals were not dumb,
but had the technical and intellectual skills to put
them on an equal basis with modern humans.
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Seafood Gave Modern Humans Edge reports that by
studying the chemicals that remained in the bones of
the earliest modern humans, scientists discovered that
their diet, included fish and fowl as well as large
mammals. The Neanderthals, on the other hand, only ate
large mammals, which became extinct. Also see
Fishy clue to rise of humans.
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Agriculture Is Bad for You is a brief introduction
to the paleo diet that ran in Time Europe.
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Coconut oil promises to be anti-viral agent reports
on trials that have confirmed that coconut oil has an
anti-viral effect that reduces the viral level in
HIV-AIDS patients to undetectable levels.
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Planet was too small for man and beasts, study finds
reports on two studies blaming ancient human hunters
equipped with fire, spears and an appetite for meat,
for the killing off of big animals.
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The Soft Science of Dietary Fat is a summary of an
article in Science Magazine reporting that mainstream
nutritional science has demonized dietary fat, yet 50
years and hundreds of millions of dollars of research
have failed to prove that eating a low-fat diet will
help you live longer. In fact, there are good reasons
to believe high-carbohydrate diets may be even worse
than high-fat diets. Here is an
image of the original article.
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Fatty Fish Protects Hearts of All Ages reports that
those who consumed fatty fish even just once a week
lowered their risk of a fatal heart attack by 44%
compared to the risk among those who did not opt for
the fish.
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Homocysteine A Possible Risk Factor For Alzheimer's
discusses an association between Alzheimer's disease
and moderately-elevated blood levels of the amino acid,
homocysteine. Homocysteine levels can be reduced by
consumption of foods with folic acid and vitamin B12,
i.e. greens and meat.
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Diabetics Improve Health With Very High-Fat, Low Carb
Diet discusses a successful study.
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Early Humans Had Woodworking Technology reports on
finding evidence that humans produced wood tools,
possibly spears, 1.5 million years ago. This is a
million years earlier than previously believed.
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Early Humans Ate Termites reports that ancient
hominids had a taste for termites.
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Coconut oil promises to be anti-viral agent is a
short extract from the Indian Express Newspapers that
reports on a study where coconut oil consumption
lowered the viral levels of the HIV patients.
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Agriculture Is Bad for You is a Time Europe article
pointing out that some dieticians recommend we change
our eating habits to resemble those of our ancestors. A
pro-Paleo article!
- Harvard Magazine on
Paleolithic Fast Food. By excavating a cave they
found that animals that move slower were eaten in the
past and in later years ones that move faster were
eaten.
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Friendly Fire - The First Campfires Helped Hominids
Survive the Night speculates that man controlled
fire 1.6 million years ago. Circumstantial evidence
also suggests that they were cooking their food.
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Insulin-Like Compound Predicts Stroke Risk states
that insulin resistance (which is usually caused by
excessive carb intake, meaning that caused by normal
intake of grains and sugar) is a predictor (i.e.
indicates increase risk) of strokes.
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Go back to stone-age diet, says health professor is
an interview with Loren Cordain.
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New Human Ancestor? Two and a half million years
ago a humanlike creature in what is now Ethiopia raised
a stone and smashed it down on an antelope bone to get
at the marrow and fat inside. This is the earliest
known evidence of a stone tool used to butcher an
animal.
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New Species Of Human Ancestor. A more detailed
version than the ABC News one. They also ate catfish
and horse. Note the bit about "high fat meat"!
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Fossil find may be 'missing link'. A third page on
2.5 million year old fossil find in Ethiopia.
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Olive oil 'reduces cancer risk' claims that using
olive oil in cooking may prevent the development of
bowel cancer.
- Scientific American has an interesting article
about the ill effects of sugar and aging at:
AGE Breakers - Rupturing the body's sugar-protein bonds
might turn back the clock. Typically, the drug
companies are trying to develop a drug to fight off the
symptoms rather than treating the cause of the problems
with a proper diet.
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A taste for meat argues that our ancestors three
million years ago ate a lot of small mammals that could
be caught without tools. Published in
Science Magazine
(which requires a subscription).
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The Caveman Diet is the CBS story on 48 hours where
they featured Ray Audette and the paleo diet. Focuses
on weight loss.
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Modern Stone Age food is an article based on an
interview with Boyd Eaton that appeared in the USA
Weekend insert magazine.
- In
What the Hominid Ate by analyzing carbon atoms in
tooth enamel researchers challenge the widely held
belief that these 3 million year ago homnoids ate
little more than fruits and leaves.
- The Electronic Telegraph had a 12-Aug-97 article
"Barbecues are a thing of the past". Some
archaeologists from Liverpool University working in the
Suffolk forest found what they believe may be a hearth
that is 400,000 years old.
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Revealing Anciet Family Ties is a chart of our
human lineage. It is included as it has arrows at the
2.5 million year mark showing when stone tools and meat
eating were introduced.
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Great Debate Builds the Rationale for Eating Meat
is the story of how Dan Murphy debated the PETA and the
arguments he used.
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Eating Like a Caveman is a page written by Kathleen
Doheny. She gives an overview of the paleo diet, then
tells of her experience of trying it for a day.
Includes this quote by Loren Cordain "If it's a fad,
it's the oldest fad going."
- The Weston
A. Price Foundation was set up by Sally Fallon and
Mary Enig. Like the Price-Pottenger Nutritional
Foundation, with which they were previously affiated,
it is not completely paleo in its recommendations. But
lots of good articles nonetheless. See
The Oiling of America. Also see
Guts and Greast: The Diet of Native Americans. And
many other articles.
- A small subset of the people eating only raw foods
are eating animal foods (RAF). And some of them have
put up a resource page for
Raw Paleolithic
Diets.
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Protein-Rich Diets May Reduce Heart Disease Risk is
a report on a prospective cohort study showing higher
protein intake is associated with reduced risk of heart
disease among women. Though this report is filled with
politically correct commentary which was not part of
the study as published.
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The Naïve Vegetarian is a long article covering
various diets with a focus on pointing out the
fallacies of vegetarianism.
The Cholesterol Myth is also at that site.
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Food is part of the Vegan Straight-Edge site. The
page is almost a resource page for paleodiet, with the
sole exception of the comments about meat and protein
requirements. It's quite interesting. Other pages at
the site include:
The origins of agriculture – a biological perspective
and a new hypothesis in which Greg Wadley & Angus
Martin argue that the shift to cultivation and animal
domestication was due to the "comfort" derived from the
opioid peptides from gluten. And John Coleman's
Opioids In Common Food Products-Addictive Peptides In
Meat, Dairy and Grains. (There isn't any evidence
presented that this is an issue with meat, but it is a
vegan site!)
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Paleolithic diet is a definition found in the Gale
Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine.
- Nutrition Australia brings you:
I have read somewhere recently about a 'Paleolithic
diet'. What exactly is the 'Paleolithic diet'?
- A hunting rights group has put up
Eating Meat is Natural, written by Jim Powlesland.
It appears to be a summary from "The Paleolithic
Prescription: A Program of Diet & Exercise and a Design
for Living".
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Diet and the evolution of the earliest human ancestors
is a study of jaw size and shape, tooth size, shape,
and wear patterns, which give clues as to what the
earliest human ancestors ate two to four million years
ago.
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Fatty Fish Cuts Risk Of Death From Heart Attack In
Elderly is another study showing the benefits of
omega-3 fatty acids consumption.
- Concerns
Regarding Soybeans by Mary Enig and Sally Fallon
discusses the negatives with soy consumption.
Abstracted from Health Freedom News, September 1995.
- Soy
Online Service is a New Zealand site dedicated to
"uncovering the truth about soy".
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Tragedy and Hype is a very comprehensive article on
soy that appeared in Nexus Magazine. Shows how the soy
industry manipulated things to turn their toxic food
into a health food.
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Should we be Scared of Soy? covers the various
health negatives of soy consumption.
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Ray Peat's Newsletter has a web site with some
downloadable sample articles. There are two articles of
interest to Paleodieters: "The Benefits of Coconut Oil"
and "Toxicity of Unsaturated Oils". A Ray Peat coconut
oil article also appears Dr. Mercola's site:
The Benefits of Coconut Oil.
- Case
For Shedding `Anti-Coconut Bias' has three parts.
An introduction to the Mary Enig address at Cocotech,
then Ray Peat's paper on the benefits of coconut oil
(also elsewhere on this page) and ends with an excerpt
from Dr. Lark Land's upcoming book, Positively Well:
Living with HIV as a Chronic, Managable, Survivable
Disease.
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Coconut: In Support of Good Health in the 21st Century
by Mary Enig is an address she gave to a Cocotech
meeting. Long and gets into coconut oil's competition.
Many references at the end.
- Nutrition Australia has a Q&A page on:
I have read somewhere recently about a 'Paleolithic
diet'. What exactly is the 'Paleolithic diet'?
Written as an introduction.
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Review and Atlas of Paleovegetation. Preliminary
land ecosystem maps of the world since the Last Glacial
Maximum (18,000 14C years ago).
- American Scientist had an article on
Chimpanzee Hunting Behavior and Human Evolution by
Craig B. Stanford in the May-June 1995 issue. It
discusses British primatologist Jane Goodall's
observations.
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Paleolithic Diet: How our bodies want to be treated.
is a page from The Healing Crow, an organization
dedicated to bringing the aspects of mind, body, and
spirit into our health.
- Most studies investigating the relationship between
protein intake and blood pressure suggest that higher
dietary protein intake has favorable influences on
blood pressure. The
latest one was presented at the 4th International
Conference on Preventive Cardiology (4th ICPC; June
29-July 3, 1997, Montreal, Canada).
- The
Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation promotes some
Paleolithic nutrition concepts, though they recommend
dairy, a non-paleo food. Many good articles worth
reading there. They also have an older site:
ppnf
online.
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Why I Am Not a Vegetarian by Dr. William T. Jarvis
makes comments about the "ideological" commitment to a
diet that are at least as interesting as the comments
about diet itself. [server not found. server problems?]
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Trans Fat Spells Double Trouble for Arteries points
out that the popular trans fat is unhealthy and not
disclosed on food labels.
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Desert Locust Recipes from the Food and Agriculture
Organization.
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Croque-insectes is all in French. The site is on
insects, and cooking them is part of the site.
Note that prices at amazon.com have been raised. Books
can be purchase elsewhere for less. I then suggested
Buy.com. But then they raised prices. Then the
cheapest that I found was
Books-a-Million when using their discount card. Now
the best advice is to shop around and not to
automatically buy from amazon.com.
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The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating
the Food You Were Designed to Eat is Loren
Cordain's book. His
publisher's page.
-
NeanderThin: Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean,
Strong, Healthy Body by Ray Audette is based on the
ideas of paleolithic nutrition. The diet contains
natural, unprocessed carbohydrates and can be followed
as a low-carb, moderate or high carb diet, depending
upon whether and how much fruit is used. The expanded
hard cover edition can be found at
Amazon.com. Also see Amazon.com for many
reviews on the out-of-print edition. A
paperback edition is now out.
-
Life Without Bread: How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can
Save Your Life by Christian B. Allan, Wolfgang
Lutz. It is based on Dr. Lutz's work with thousands of
patients in Austria. It deals with the health issues
connected to high carb consumption. It is basically an
English version and update of Dr. Lutz's 1967 book with
the same title: Leben ohne Brot. He recommends eating
only 72 grams of carbohydrates, and an unlimited amount
of fat. And provides evidence as to why this is the
healthiest diet. Read the review at Amazon.com by Todd
Moody.
- Protein Power by Eades and Eades was a best seller
for over a year. Now they have published
The Protein Power Lifeplan: A New Comprehensive
Blueprint for Optimal Health. It uses many paleo
arguments for their diet recommendations. All easy to
understand. And also a
Paperback Edition.
-
Meat-Eating and Human Evolution (Human Evolution
Series) is a $70 book that address the questions
surrounding when, how, and why early humans began to
eat meat. See and read the sample pages.
-
Evolutionary Aspects of Nutrition and Health - Diet,
Exercise, Genetics and Chronic Disease is a
compilation of articles showing how humanity's genetic
makeup has been directly influenced by nutritional
selective pressures and how our present day diet may be
discordant with our stone age genome. The book is
rather expensive, but the description on the page is
worth reading.
- The book
The Cholesterol Myths by Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD, is
a much expanded version of
his
web site. See
reviews at amazon.com.
- The
Urban Cave Dweller Diet by Glen Crawford tells how
he lost weight on this diet. Page has an introduction,
but details are in the book. For sale by download or
CD-ROM.
-
Starch Madness: Paleolithic Nutrition for Today by
Richard L. Heinrich. Has a foreword by Barry Sears of
Zone fame. For Publishers Weekly and author's review
see
Amazon.com.
- Diet
Prevent Polio by Dr Sandler is a web site on a 50
year old book where he argues that low blood sugar, due
to a high carb diet, makes one susceptible to polio,
and other viruses and disease. He did research showing
that a meat based diet, very low carb, keeps blood
sugar stable.
- Evolution for Success is a "Darwinian Diet
and Exercise Program" by Del Thiessen providing
nutritional and activity strategies. Notes our
"Stone-Age" relatives were free of the most common
diseases of civilization. No reviews yet at
Amazon.com.
-
Nutrition and Evolution by Michael Crawford and
David Marsh explains how diet may have shaped
evolution. Heavy reading. See reviews at Amazon.com.
Now unfortunately out-of-print
- The Carnitine
Miracle by Robert Crayhon, M.S. The nutrient
carnitine is abundant in red meat. According to Crayhon
carnitine helps balance blood lipids and blood sugar
levels, maximizes energy levels, increases endurance,
eliminates discomfort in ketosis, promotes burning of
fat and building of muscle and increases overall
well-being. See reviews at
Amazon.com.
- Dr. Weston Price's book
Nutrition & Physical Degeneration. puts to rest a
lot of myths about diet, dental, physical, and
emotional health, and presents the strongest case for a
super-nutritious Native (or Paleo) Diet. His book
outlines the conditions/causes for exceptional health.
A classic that was first published in 1938.
- Diana Schwarzbein is another M.D. that has come to
realize that low carb is what works. See reviews at
The Schwarzbein Principle. The book is based on her
work with insulin-resistant patients with Type II
diabetes. She concludes that low-fat diets cause heart
attacks, eating fat makes you lose body fat, and it's
important to eat high-cholesterol foods every day.
- From September to December, 1997, Robert McFerran
posted draft chapters of his book,
Arthritis - Searching for the Truth - Searching for the
Cure, to the Ask Dr Stoll Bulletin Board. Includes
his view of human history and its relationship to
dietary needs.
-
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges
Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrat
by Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. and Sally Fallon. The premise is
the culinary traditions of our ancestors, and the food
choices and preparation techniques of healthy
nonindustrialized peoples, should serve as the model
for contemporary eating habits. However, they push
whole grains and dairy, which aren't Paleolithic.
- Arthur De Vany Ph.D. is writing a book called
Evolutionary Fitness on "What Evolution Teaches Us
About How to Live and Stay Healthy".
- The Stone Age Diet was written by Walter L.
Voegtlin back in 1975. It is out-of-print. However we
have put up his
Functional and Structural Comparison of Man's Digestive
Tract with that of a Dog and Sheep.
- The
Cambridge World History of Food encapsulates much
of what is known of food and nutrition throughout the
span of human life on earth. Selected chapters are
online.
- Excerpts from
Dismantling a Myth: The Role of Fat and Carbohydrates
in our Diet by Wolfgang Lutz MD. Covers various
digestive disorders. See newer English edition above.
- Peter D'Adamo's serotype diet book
Eat Right 4 Your Type
is in sympathy with the paleo diet approach, at least
if you are Type O.
- Online books on the Hunza people:
The Wheel of Health by G.T. Wrench, M.D.
High Road to Hunza by Barbara Mons.
The Healthy Hunzas by J.I. Rodale.
- Ishmael is
the website of Daniel Quinn, who has written several
popular books. He believes that humans are just one of
the species on earth and shouldn't keep increasing
their agricultural food supply, which just leads to
increased population at the expense of other species.
- Ian Tattersall has written Becoming Human:
Evolution and Human Uniqueness. In
Chapter One at the beginning their is a discussion
of the diet about 40 kyr ago.
- Barry Sears, Ph.D., has a couple books on his Zone
Diet. Somewhat paleo in its orientation.
Zone Home is one
of the sites on the diet.
- Charles Hunt has written
Charles Hunt's Diet Evolution. It is not truly a
paleo diet, but more of a low-carb diet. It's subtitle
is "Eat Fat and Get Fit". The author is PR oriented and
studied up on the web and then wrote the book. Now
out-of-print.
- We Want to Live is a book by Aajonus
Vonderplanitz. His basic philosophy is that (a) food is
to be eaten in a live, raw condition; and (b) a diet
rich in raw fats and raw meats from natural sources is
essential to health.
From the Planets is a book review by Ralph W. Moss,
and at
Amazon.com there are reader reviews.
Eating the
Aajonus way is a site and a mailing list on it.
-
Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects
by Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio gets laudatory reviews
at amazon.com.
- Alaskan
Harvest sells only fresh ocean caught fish, as well
as range fed reindeer and muskox.
-
Arctic Wild Harvest Company in Canada has several
unique foods harvested from their arctic wilderness.
- Arizona Nut House has a variety of
Nutcrackers for sale.
-
BisonCentral.com has lots of info on bison, plus a
long list of places selling bison.
- Callie’s
Organics is a home and office delivery business
with a variety of organic and specialty produce, and
other organic foods. Warehouse is in the Bronx.
-
Cranberry Lane has coconut oil, palm oil, and the
hard to find red palm oil. Scroll down.
- Crowfield
Farm sells bison meat. No mail order. Delivery from
Rochester east to Lyons.
- D'Artagnan
has organic game and poultry, and wild mushrooms.
Expensive.
- Dave's
Organic Produce in California sells organic, fruits
and vegetables which are shipped using UPS. Featured
produce varies with the seasons. [site problems?]
- Diamond
Organics ships certified organic greens, fruits,
mushrooms and sprouts throughout the US.
- eatwild.com has a
page on Why Grassfed is Best! Contains a comprehensive
list of suppliers of grassfed meat in all 50 states
plus Canada. Also, the "New Research" section is a good
database of citations on the benefits of grassfarming.
And a book is for sale.
- Fallow
Hollow Deer Farm sells online naturally raised,
grass fed meat, poultry and eggs.
- Fox Fire
Farms in Colorado sells natural lamb, a true free
range product raised on pasture.
- Frank's
Organics delivers to parts of Australia. Included
are fresh fruit, vegetables, eggs, meat, and dried
fruit and nuts.
- Frieda's
sells specialty produce and markets over 500 items
including exotic fruit, specialty vegetables, dried
fruits and nuts, mushrooms, squash, and a wide variety
of Asian and Latin foods.
- Game Sales
International is a direct importer of wild game
meats, game birds, and specialty foods.
- Garden
Spots Distributors, in PA, has some organic dried
fruit. Nuts don't appear to be organic. Apparently they
carry organic produce, poultry and beef, but none of
these appear at the web site.
-
GrassfedOrganics.com sells grass fed beef. Raised
and shipped from Illinois.
- GreatBeef.com
is a network of independent family farmers and
ranchers. Use the site to locate producers in your
area.
- The
Gunthorp Farm raises pigs that have been pastured.
They are in Indiana.
-
HerbThyme Farms sells edible flowers in bulk. Page
has a nice chart of flowers and their flavors. Also
fresh herbs. [account inactive]
- Hunter/gatherers often eat grubs. A swedish
newspaper reported that entomologists at the University
of Iowa have created some recipes based on insects, and
insects can be bought via internet. See
The Herp Mall.
- Hills Foods
Ltd sells organic meats, game meats, and specialty
poultry; including guaranteed wild (no grains) animal
such as wild Arctic Caribou, alligator and muskox. They
also have some non-meat wild associated specialty
items.
- Homestead Products has a page on
Grain Mills. While they don't get into nuts, the
Country Living Mill is a burr grinder and suitable for
them.
-
Hunt's Black Walnut Cracker is for those with a
walnut tree is their back yard. This is a serious
device.
- Jaffe
Brothers in California features an extensive line
of organically grown and untreated dried fruits, nuts,
dates, seeds, and other select products.
-
Jamaican Gold is a premium hand made coconut oil.
See story of how it is made.
- K.C's
Game Meat Market in Coldwater, Ontario raises elk,
buffalo and deer on grass and a small amount of grain.
-
Lasater Grasslands Beef® sells truly free range
beef.
-
Living and Raw Foods Resources list many resources
for organically grown food.
-
Living Tree Community sells Organic Raw Almond
Butter, organic nuts, and organic dried fruit. Also has
recipes section.
-
MacFarlane Pheasant Farm sells pheasant and a whole
line of game meats.
- Mt.
Banahaw Tropical Herbs in the Philippines offers
unrefined Virgin Coconut Oil.
- Mount Royal
USA bills themselves as "The Venison and Game Meat
Connection." All farms feature farm-raised game using
controlled diets that are free of steroids, growth
hormones and antibiotics.
-
Mountain America Jerky sells fresh made-to-order
gourmet game meat jerky. No preservatives - No MSG - No
growth promoters or steroids.
- The Natural
Food Hub is a directory of many food vendors. They
have a hunter/gatherer attitude towards food. See
information on natural foods. Also a nice collection of
edible wild plant and animal links. A site to spend
time at
-
Nature's First Law Online Superstore has organic
sun dried fruit. See sun-ripened, raw, organic olives
and mangoes.
- New West
Foods has buffalo and wild game. Formerly Denver
Buffalo Company. Whether bison is grass or grain fed is
not known.
- North Hollow
Farm in Vermont sells naturally grown beef and
pork. Some corn is fed to them.
- Northstar
Bison in Wisconsin sells totally grassfed
"buffalo." Can order on the web for next Monday
shipping.
- Nuts4U sells
coconut flour, and other nut flours.
-
Omega Nutrition sells coconut butter and some nut
oils.
- Organic Kitchen, the organic foods resource for the
web, maintains a long list of
organic food vendors.
- Organics
Direct in London UK has an extensive organic
delivery service offering fruit and vegetables.
- Outlands
Natural New Zealand Meat Products. Beef comes from
cattle raised from birth to bite, outside on ranches
with evergreen pastures. Can be bought in Whole Foods
stores.
- Overseas
Game Meat Export is an outfit in Australia that
supplies Australian game meat from the Outback to
health food stores.
- Peaceful
Pastures sells by mail all the common farm meats.
Site does not say that the diets are not supplemented
by some grain. E-mail asking this question was not
answered.
- Pinyon Pinenuts
are collected in the wild by George & Penny Frazier.
Site also has some pinenut information.
-
Polarica, with a retail store in San Francisco,
sells exotic meats and other gourmet foods.
-
Promofood International sells rendered goose fat
and some other oils.
- Coconut oil and palm oil are good for frying and
are considered Paleolithic. Palm oil is best for deep
fat frying.
Rainbow Meadow sells them on the web.
-
Rougie Rendered Goose Fat is tasty and recommended
for cooking, as olive oil breaks down at a relatively
low temperature.
-
Sandhills Red Angus raises grass fed beef in
Nebraska. While they sell cuts, they focus on selling
whole, half, quarter, and eighths of a beef.
- Seattle's
Finest Exotic Meats has all natural farm raised
exotic meats from around the world.
- Smoky Hill
Bison Co. in Kansas sells many different cuts and
boxes of bison meat. Grass fed.
- Southern Game Meat
sells a brand of kangaroo meat internationally.
-
Special Foods! has lots of unusual flours. Some are
paleo! Check out: malanga, yam, lotus, water chestnut,
and artichoke.
- Starr Organic
in Florida sells mail order citrus, mangoes, avocados,
bananas, limes, and lemons. Prices at site may not be
current.
- SunOrganic
Farm has dried fruit, nuts, nut butters, and other
foods.
- Texas Bison
Company sells grassfed bison meat.
- Texas
GrassFed Beef Company is a marketing alliance for
cattlemen who raise beef on grass. They sell beef by
the cut in addition to bulk purchases. In 2002 they we
will also have pork, chicken, turkey, rabbit, and goat
meats plus chicken eggs. All products come from
critters eating grass or legumes and some browse. NO
GRAIN!
- The Gourmet
Food Store specializes in gourmet items, especially
unusual and hard-to-locate dried items. See a variety
of chile powders, and roasted chestnut and hazelnut
flours.
- Urban
Organic delivers organic produce to the NY
Metropolitan area.
- The Valley
Livestock Marketing Cooperative supplies grass fed
beef, pork, lamb, veal and chickens from Hudson Valley
farmers. They will ship by mail, or you can pick it up.
-
VERMONTBEEF.COM sells pure Vermont pasture finished
beef.
- Paleolithic eaters avoid grains, but they do eat
nuts and seeds. These can be ground into flour for
baking. Research finds that there are three types of
grinders, but only one suitable for oily foods, the
burr grinder. Walton Feed has a good description of the
types at
Which Grinder is Best For You?
- Waterfall
Hollow Farm sells pasture-finished beef raised on
certified-organic pasture. Now also selling
pasture-raised chicken.
- Whole
Foods Market carries pasture fed meats, and many
other organic foods. Web ordering and stores around the
US under different names.
- The Dry Store has the American Harvest
GardenMaster Dehydrator. This is one of the two
leading choice for serious dehydrating. Can run with 30
trays.
- The
Excalibur Dehydrator Website includes a pitch for
dehydrating foods and showcases their dehyrators with
square trays that slide in like a drawer, and not
stacked like the round ones. This is the other leading
choice.
-
Excalibur Dehydrator has quite a bit of information
on dehydrating, including its history, along with a
sales pitch to buy their high-end dehydrators.
- Living Foods sells the Excalibur line. See
View all Dehydrators.
- The
L'EQUIP Model 528 Food Dehydrator is a rectangular
model that can have up to 20 trays. Has
computer-controlled dehydrator sensor.
- Has Dehydrators
made from the finest birch plywood. Plus they have a
book for sale.
- The Harvest
Saver is a compact, small volume drying system.
They also have A
Basic Look at Dehydration which covers the
technical aspects of dehydration from a commercial
point-of-view.
- The PaleoDIET mailing list is a RESEARCH oriented
list. To get a subscription questionnaire send a
message to
listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu with SUB PALEODIET
yourfirstname yourlastname in the body. Actual
subscriptions are processed by the list owner.
Searchable
archives of the mailing list are available.
- The PaleoFOOD mailing list is a SUPPORT list for
people trying to follow a Paleolithic diet in today's
age. The FAQ for the list is NeanderThin. See
first link in the Book section. To subscribe send SUB
PALEOFOOD yourfirstname yourlastname in a message body
to
listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu. Searchable
archives of the mailing list are available. Also
see Other Archives.
- The PaleoRECIPE mailing list is a RECIPE list is a
companion list to the PaleoFOOD list. To subscribe send
SUB PALEORECIPE yourfirstname yourlastname in a message
body to
listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu. Searchable
archives of the mailing list are available.
-
CaveManFood is a Yahoo group on how to eat like our
CaveMan ancestors. Light activity.
- There is now a newsgroup called
alt.support.diet.paleolithic that is independent of
the mailing lists. It is not very active.
- A mailing list now exists on Evolutionary Fitness.
To subscribe send SUB EVOLUTIONARY-FITNESS
yourfirstname yourlastname in a message body to
listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu. Searchable
archives of the mailing list. The archives of the
original mailing list are available in
evfit_archives.zip. You will need pkunzip or winzip
to decompress it.
-
PADIET-L is an e-mail based discussion forum for
topics relating to the origins and evolution of human
diet. Little activity. See
list archives.
-
Live-Food Mailing List for persons interested in
learning about and experimenting with the use of raw
animal foods, and specifically, in the work Aajonus
Vonderplanitz. It is recommended that members of the
list be familiar with Aajonus Vonderplanitz and his
book, "We Want to Live."
- Bob Martin has set up a
Paleo Diet web based forum. Not very active.
-
EatBugs is a Yahoo group on insect appreciation and
eating them for lunch! Light activity.
- The
NeanderThin Club was started at Yahoo by Doug
Trapp. A fairly quiet forum and a disappointed Doug
resigned as founder.
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