In article , Charlie wrote:

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:45:14 -0700, Billy wrote:



It appears that Diamond and Pollan are on the same page. It's an
interesting juxtaposition with Diamond and Pollan recommending getting
back to natural, traditional foods and Charlie's "nano food" post
yesterday, which heralds another attempt by agribusiness to get us to
eat "stuff" which has never existed in our diets, or in nature, before.
Begging the question, "Is it any good for us?", thus taking us even
further away from traditional foods.

Phyto nutrients and bioflavonoids may well be the new frontier in
healthy foods, if we can fight off the strangulation of natural food by
the usual suspects.

"The story so far . . . " Do you know anything about this Dr. Jay
Wortman? I'm just putting my toes into the waters of the cholesterol
controversy by eating "real eggs" (free range from a friend). My A1c was
up on my last test, so I've already started to make adjustments. My
diet is becoming more meat and vegetables (I have no idea when I will
get a chance to use my home made pizza dough that is languishing in the
freezer). I fear this also doesn't bode well for the chocolate almonds.

google paleolithic diet and see where all it leads you......

Should keep ya busy for a few hours.

Decisions, decisions. Learning and unlearning.

Charlie

Jarod Diamond ends his paper with:

Hunter-gatherers practiced the most successful and longest lasting
lifestyle in human history. In contrast,we're still struggling with the
mess into which agriculture has tumbled us, and it's unclear whether we
can solve it. Suppose that an archaeologist who had visited us from
outer space where trying to explain human history to his fellow
spacelings. He might illustrate the results of his digs by a twenty-four
hour clock on which one hour represents 100,000 years of real past time.
It the history of the human race began at midnight, then we would now be
almost at the end of our first day. We lived as hunter-gatherers for
nearly the whole of that day,from midnight through dawn, noon, and
sunset. Finally, at 11:54 p.m., we adopted agriculture. As our second
midnight approaches, will the plight of famine-stricken peasants
gradually spread to engulf us all? Or will we somehow achieve those
seductive blessings that we imagine behind agriculture's glittering
facade and that have so far eluded us?
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Well, at present we can't go back to foraging for nuts and berries, and
grass and acorn fed critters, but we can avoid the twinkies and the
chickens and pork products that are pumped up with high fructose corn
syrup.

I found a local cheese company that makes cheese from grass grazed cows.
My god is it expensive a one pound wedge of Original Blue along with a
one pound block of Vintage White Cheddar ~plus our top secret "knock
your socks off" Mac-n-Cheese recipe! $44.00. First I'm trying to
ascertain if any grain is feed to the cows and how much. Organic and
natural food producers have been known to play fast and loose with image
and reality (Petaluma Poultry for example). I presume I'll be in for
similar sticker shock, when I visit the butcher with the grass fed beef.
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Billy

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