Todd > wrote:
: > IIRC Paleo folks of long long ago, hunter gatherers really enjoyed a great
: > treat when they found a tree with a bee hive in it. They woule absolutely
: > (kind of like Winniw the Pooh) eat great amounts of the honey when they
: > could get it. Unfortunately, this was a naturally occurring carb that is
: > totally unsuitable for diabetics so we can't follow anactual Paleo diet
: > which woul dhave in =cluded honey and date honey adn other naturally
: > occurring setet fruits adn honey.
: >
: > Wendy
: >

: Hi Wendy,

: The fruits were not hybridized, so not too high carb there, and
: well with human design parameters. They could could not get their
: hands on all that often, based on tribes in Africa that
: still do it. So not too big an insult. (It takes balls to
: steel honey from African bees, but they know how.)

: Blueberry are low carb and they contain goodies great for T2's!
: When I was inducted into the "Pin Cushion Club", my incredible
: ER doctor said to eat blueberries and cinnamon. I try to eat
: 2/3 a cup of blueberries a day. (It's a burden, I know ...)

: Here is a study on fat folks, insulin sensitivity, and blueberries.
: Remember we all (T2's) started out with insulin resistance:
: http://jn.nutrition.org/content/140/10/1764.full

: On the Honey front, remember that they were seldom ate anything
: that remotely approached the modern toxic, high carb diet. So, since
: their bodies were not under assault all the time and their pancreas
: and livers were not damaged by excess carbs, a little honey every
: now and then would not hurt.

: A little carbs every now and then won't hurt anyone. After you
: have been injured though, not a good idea to stick your hand in
: the fire. Those that have not yet been injured, a little more
: is probably okay, but not the scandalous 375 grams per day the USDA
: recommends. That just creates more T2's. (100 grams per day is
: probably a good target for T0's and 60 per day for T2's -- not
: all at once!)

: They also ate things we won't touch, like scorpions, bugs, lizards,
: snakes, organ meats etc.. Kidney, liver: Yuk! :-P If it moved ...

: One of the things they did eat that we don't was bone marrow.
: We can achieve that with chicken broth, as long as we blitz the
: bones and skins in the pressure cooker. Otherwise we just have
: tasty soup without the marrow and skin components. And as my
: GP says, nothing beats the restorative power of a good
: (made right) chicken broth.

: Oh My. They use to eat horses too. Try that (in America)
: and Oh Boy!

: You are a blessing. Please never stop writing me. :-)

: -T
Thanks for the complimant, but i still disagree. IT is easy to say, well
i follow the "natural" un hybredized paleo diet and look at all the things
that we don't eat. Many of those foods are sill eten in many parts of the
worlk. Liver is often prepared in delicious ays like chopped liver and
has been adopted by many non-Jews as a nice sandwich or first course.
How about liverwurst? Pate de Fois gras(nasty as the mehod of production
is), and then there is sreak and kidny pie, still, I gather eaten in Great
Britain. In old cook books there are all those tripe adn lung stew
recipies very common in the 19th century. Lung were commonly eaten until
they were outlawed in the US, for I believe , TB concerns. Every have
Osso bucco? They give you a special small spoon to eat the marrow.

In non-European parts of the world I can't address this, but I am sue we
wold find much of this still eaten in indigenous ways. Dates have
beenaround since very early times I fact , some believe that "the land
flowing with milk and honey" talked about in the Bible meant the wild date
honey and the milk of the wild goats.

In any event, I don't really see how trying to follow that Paleo diet for
Historical benefits seems to be the answer for everyone. It may work
well for you, but not for all diabetics or all humans today.

Wendy