--- Reggie Bautista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> >From the websites I've read since I sent this email > last night, I'm guessing I > don't have Celiac's disease, but it looks like some > of those symptoms are also > things that can be alleviated by a diet called the > paleolithic diet or caveman > diet. Basically, anything that a caveman could have > easily eaten is fine, but any > food that requires a lot of processing to prepare is > not. Meats, fruits, most > veggies, and most nuts are ok. Beans, potatoes, > processed sugar, grains, and > dairy products are off-limits. (Fortunately, one > site said if you need to cheat, > cheat by eating cheese or a little butter. I'm not > sure I could get by without > my occasional cheese fix :-) > > Has anyone heard about this diet? Comments? > Suggestions?
I've heard of it (and may have posted something last year, IIRC); I don't have any hard data on it however. I'd like to point out that the Southwestern pre-contact Native Americans ate a diet with beans, squash and corn as staples, supplemented by wild game and gathered desert plants, with chiles and tomatoes important condiment/sides -- the remote Pima of Mexico still eat a similar diet (with the addition I think of goat/sheep, but these are not fatty feedlot domestics, rather hardy mountain-types), with low incidence of diabetes and its attendants, while their sedentary fast-food-eating Tucson (Arizona) cousins have the worst diabetes rate in the US. The more processed food is, the higher the glycemic index (frex in white bread or pasta the carbs convert quickly to simple sugars that can overwork the pancreas) and artificial additives (frex nitrites in lunch meats, definitely carcinogenic to some degree). Debbi who nevertheless had pizza for lunch with blueberry cobbler for dessert...but did have a tea and a green salad with a big handful of carrots for supper (<sigh> OK, with a slice of crisped bacon crumbled on top... :} ) Moderation In All Things Including Moderation Maru ;) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
