On May 18, 2:27*pm, Doug Freyburger > wrote:
>
> Hummus is a combination of legume paste from chick peas and seed butter
> from sesame tahini plus a little of this and that to vary it enough to
> be called the family recipe. So there's one such combination that is
> very good.
>
> There's a concept I found hilarious. *Paleolithic eating is where if you
> can acquire a food with no technology more advanced than a sharp stick
> and you can eat it raw with no ill effects then feel free to eat it raw
> or cooked. *The product is in a jar and made in a factory using metal
> grinding machines. *Yet because the ingredients can be pulled off of
> trees and other plants the resulting product is paleolithic allowed.
>
> It's as funny to me as a box of Rice Chex being labelled "gluten free".
> Sure, so's my chicken and broccolli.


The basic concept of the types of food that hunter gatherers ate being
optimal for the human diet has not changed. They were not farmers.
What has changed is the realization that in the 21st century, there's
just too much variety available to continue to expect people to be
really strict about that type of diet.

My own primal eating involves leaving out grains, legumes, sugar and
empty carbohydrates. I'm not opposed to some processing of primal
foods but I stay away from GMO and buy organic as much as possible.

Celiacs are happy that Rice Chex are gluten free. Since I don't eat
grains I don't worry about it.