On 10/20/2013 9:06 AM, W. Baker wrote:
> 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.

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> 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
>