Second Opinions is a site by Barry Groves, PhD. It includes many articles
exposing dietary and medical misinformation. A selection of them: The
Na?e Vegetarian is a long article covering various diets with a focus
on pointing out the fallacies of vegetarianism. The
Cholesterol Myth points out there is no evidence that eating cholesterol
is bad. Does
Animal Fat Really Cause Cancer? points out that an examination of a couple
of studies that came out in July 2003 does not support the claims that media
is making for them. Polyunsaturated
Oils and Cancer argues that polyunsaturated oils increase cancer risk.
William Banting: The
Father of the Low-Carbohydrate Diet is a history of the first low carb
diet, which was also paleo.
Free online health Profile This is a great resource to inform the user about BMR, BMI, and HealthScore plus much more!
An
Interview with Ward Nicholson now has three parts on the web. Good overview
of man's diet over the past 65 million years. Long but highly recommended
reading. First published in Chet Day's "Health & Beyond" newsletter. Now part
of a very comprehensive Beyond Vegetarianism
site. Every argument that your vegetarian friends use to avoid meat for health
reasons is debunked here.
The Evolution Diet is Joseph Stephen Breese Morse's page involving the Evolution Diet. This diet has strong likenesses to The Paleodiet, but it shows how we can incorporate modern foods into our diet to imitate the natural foods of the hunter/gatherer. Topics include: A Diet That Will Last, Carbohydrates Aren't A Four Letter Word, and How the Culture-less Human Would Eat. The book is an enlightening and often humorous look at "What and How We We're Designed to Eat."SM
Tamir Katz's Paleolithic
Diet Information page has been put up by a medical student at SUNY Stony
Brook. He has a knack of clearly and directly explaning things. Excellent
for friends and relatives of paleo eaters who are wondering why you eat weirdly.
Neanderthin (Paleo)
eating is Vad's page where he tries to sum up, super concentrated, what
this whole thing is about. Includes menus, weight loss, and more.
In On the Benefits of Ancient
Diets Staffan Lindeberg discusses how the Western diet causes health problems.
Also an overview of his Kitava study. Staffan now has a home page Utbildningarom
prevention, though initially only in Swedish.
A diet high in phytic acid, which can be found in whole grains (it's in
the bran) and beans like soy, is very detrimental for mineral absorption.
Phytic acid strongly binds to minerals like calcium, iron, zinc and magnesium
to form insoluble salts, phytates, which precipitate from the body. Staffan
Lindeberg has written a summary
on phytic acid.
Two common foods clearly are Neolithic and avoiding them is key to a paleo
diet. Here are link pages for avoiding them: Gluten-Free
Page and No-Milk Page.
JoAnn Betten of the PaleoFood mailing list and I have collected many recipes
at www.PaleoFood.com. All have no
grains, no gluten, no dairy, no beans/legumes, no refined sugar, or other
Neolithic foods.
In William Calvin's The
Ascent of Mind, Chapter 8 he discusses why he thinks that the Acheulian
hand-ax (the oldest of the fancy stone tools of Homo erectus) was really a
"killer frisbee." He argues that natural selection for throwing accuracy,
which requires brain machinery, is the evolutionary scenario for bootstrapping
higher intellectual functions. There are many more articles about evolution
and human development throughout William's extensive
site.
Lynne Olver at the Morris County Library has assembled The
food timeline, which gives you the history of Neolithic foods. Includes
paleo foods, like animal domestication and when some foods where first noted
in the literature.
The Meat, Leaves and Berries Page
is a "paleo" like diet put up by Dan John. But dairy products are allowed.
Couldn't tell much, as many pages came up blank with ActiveX turned off.
Dental Microwear Web Site is
on the study of the microscopic scratches and pits that form on a tooth's
surface as the result of its use. See the page on references. Some are evidences
of past diet.
Mary G. Enig, Ph.D., an expert of international renown in the field of lipid
chemistry, has a Trans Fat InfoWeb
Page. A simple introduction to trans fatty acids. Trans
Fatty Acid Fact Sheet is a short page listing the negative highlights
of this food.
Factors that Inhibit Calcium
Absorption is an article pointing out the non-paleo things we do, mostly
food related, that are negative for calcium absorption.
The Cholesterol Myths
by Uffe Ravnskov, M.D., Ph.D. argues that too much animal fat being dangerous
is a myth. This is a collection of essays, complete with the critical references.
The Cholesterol Myth
is an article by Thomas J. Moore from his book, Heart Failure. Argues that
diet has hardly any effect on your cholesterol level; the drugs that can lower
it often have serious or fatal side effects; and there is no evidence at all
that lowering your cholesterol level will lengthen your life.
Chet Day sent a copy of the article by Robert Crayhon (Interview
with Loren Cordain) to the Rea Centre in London, a place claiming to be
proponents of a paleo diet. You can check out their counterpoint at Hunter
Gatherer Paradigm Examined in New Light. It argues that our ancestors
were not big meat eaters. Argues that since men are the scientists that hunting
has been exaggerated out of proportion, and that gathering was the primary
source of food. Chet Day also asked some questions and created The
Rea Center Interview: Paleo Nutrition, Veganism, and More. Incredibly
wordy with little content.
Philip Thrift has a page on Principles
of Paleofitness. He follows NeanderThin and works out daily before eating.
The
Paleolithic Diet is Bob Hodgen's story of his experiences on NeanderThin.
Includes short explanation.
Krispin Sullivan has written The
Lectin Report. A good place to start to learn about these toxic proteins
in Neolithic foods.
Aquatic Ape Theory
is a site covering all links on the subject. (The theory argues that humans
evolved along the water's edge, but such evidence is now covered by the oceans.)
Buried in the middle of The
Revised Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen for Effecting Lysis in Solid Tumors
one can find their diet recommendations for tumor control. It has a paleo
diet orientation. Protein is 35%, preferably Omega 3 rich. Carbohydrates (also
35%) are only vegetables and fruit, no beans, bread, potatoes, or any grain.
Then dietary and supplemental forms of fat should provide 20-30% of (daily)
calories.
WWW.PALEODIET.NU is a site in Swedish
put up by Niclas Larsson. He has plans to grow the site.
Aletheia Price has Edible Insects.
Very comprehensive. Read the "About the Author."
Weird & Different Recipes
is a page by Bert Christensen that includes several insect recipes and other
foods that a Paleolithic dieter may have eaten.
Zachary Huang has put up his Bug-Eating
Page. Mostly pictures of people eating giant silkworms and mealworms.
Also see his other links.
The Evolution Diet: What and How We WEre Designed to Eat by JSB Morse is an excellent take on paleolithic nutrition. It incorporates modern foods as they would be integrated into the natural diet of paleolithic man. Stressed here more than any other diet is the placement of foods within your day-to-day routine (the "How" we were designed to eat). In essence, eat Low-Sugar High-Fiber (LoS Hi-Fi) foods throuhgout the day and eat a high-protein meal after exercise and before rest. Highly recommended! The Evolution Diet official site.
Life Without Bread: How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life by Christian B. Allan, Wolfgang Lutz. It is based on Dr. Lutz's work with thousands of patients in Austria. It deals with the health issues connected to high carb consumption. It is basically an English version and update of Dr. Lutz's 1967 book with the same title: Leben ohne Brot. He recommends eating only 72 grams of carbohydrates, and an unlimited amount of fat. And provides evidence as to why this is the healthiest diet. Read the review at Amazon.com by Todd Moody.
Evolutionary Aspects of Nutrition and Health - Diet, Exercise, Genetics and Chronic Disease is a compilation of articles showing how humanity's genetic makeup has been directly influenced by nutritional selective pressures and how our present day diet may be discordant with our stone age genome. The book is rather expensive, but the description on the page is worth reading. One section is now entirely online!
Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival recommends a very paleo-like diet, and they also make a good argument for electric lighting as a major contributor to modern health problems. It's written in a very magazinish, overblown style, but the reasoning is overall sound.
Diet Prevents Polio by Dr Sandler is a web site on a 50 year old book where he argues that low blood sugar, due to a high carb diet, makes one susceptible to polio, and other viruses and disease. He did research showing that a meat based diet, very low carb, keeps blood sugar stable.
Survival of the Fittest is a "Darwinian Diet and Exercise Program" by Del Thiessen providing nutritional and activity strategies. Notes our "Stone-Age" relatives were free of the most common diseases of civilization. No reviews yet at Amazon.com.
Nutrition and Evolution by Michael Crawford and David Marsh explains how diet may have shaped evolution. Heavy reading. See reviews at Amazon.com. Now unfortunately out-of-print
The Carnitine Miracle by Robert Crayhon, M.S. The nutrient carnitine is abundant in red meat. According to Crayhon carnitine helps balance blood lipids and blood sugar levels, maximizes energy levels, increases endurance, eliminates discomfort in ketosis, promotes burning of fat and building of muscle and increases overall well-being. See reviews at Amazon.com.
Dr. Weston Price's book Nutrition & Physical Degeneration. puts to rest a lot of myths about diet, dental, physical, and emotional health, and presents the strongest case for a super-nutritious Native (or Paleo) Diet. His book outlines the conditions/causes for exceptional health. A classic that was first published in 1938.
Diana Schwarzbein is another M.D. that has come to realize that low carb is what works. See reviews at The Schwarzbein Principle. The book is based on her work with insulin-resistant patients with Type II diabetes. She concludes that low-fat diets cause heart attacks, eating fat makes you lose body fat, and it's important to eat high-cholesterol foods every day.
From September to December, 1997, Robert McFerran posted draft chapters of his book, Arthritis - Searching for the Truth - Searching for the Cure, to the Ask Dr Stoll Bulletin Board. Includes his view of human history and its relationship to dietary needs.
The Cambridge World History of Food encapsulates much of what is known of food and nutrition throughout the span of human life on earth. Selected chapters are online.
Ishmael is the website of Daniel Quinn, who has written several popular books. He believes that humans are just one of the species on earth and shouldn't keep increasing their agricultural food supply, which just leads to increased population at the expense of other species.
Ian Tattersall has written Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness. In Chapter One at the beginning their is a discussion of the diet about 40 kyr ago.
Barry Sears, Ph.D., has a couple books on his Zone Diet. Somewhat paleo in its orientation. Zone Home is one of the sites on the diet.
Charles Hunt has written Charles Hunt's Diet Evolution. It is not truly a paleo diet, but more of a low-carb diet. It's subtitle is "Eat Fat and Get Fit". The author is PR oriented and studied up on the web and then wrote the book. Now out-of-print.
We Want to Live is a book by Aajonus Vonderplanitz. His basic philosophy is that (a) food is to be eaten in a live, raw condition; and (b) a diet rich in raw fats and raw meats from natural sources is essential to health. From the Planets is a book review by Ralph W. Moss, and at Amazon.com there are reader reviews. The Live-Food Mailing List discusses the concepts of this book.
The Paleo Diet is Loren Cordain's
site. It promotes his book and also includes, for free download, PDF files
of all of his scientific articles on Paleo Diet.
The Evolution Diet is Joseph
Stephen Breese Morse's page involving the Evolution Diet. Again, I strongly
recommend this book. It involves more than just the run of the mill diet book-
it really delves into the workings of the human body in a way that most everyone
can approach. It teaches exactly how we're supposed to eat!
Buried in a tutorial at The Institute For Ice Age Studies we find a section
on Strategies for Survival. Hunting and gathering start at Scheduling
and Mobility.
Origins and Evolution of
Human Diet is an academic web site devoted to discussion of evolution
and the human diet. Especially don't miss the articles on the conferences
link! And in them especially see the Boyd
Eaton one!
Hunters and Gatherers
Anthropology is a course taught by Raymond Hames at U. of Nebraska. Includes
lecture notes on the book The
Foraging Spectrum which outlines the important research issues, theory,
and problems in hunter-gatherer research. His site has many other sub-pages
that shouldn't be missed.
How
to Carve an Elephant is a chapter in Making Silent Stones Speak: Human
Evolution and the Dawn of Technology by Kathy D. Schick and Nicholas Toth
(1993). A cute writeup on some archaeologists that showed that a dead elephant
can be carved up using the simple tools that were available 1.5 - 1.9 million
years ago.
Cabrillo College's Anthropology Department has Monte
Verde A Pre Clovis Site, which among other things, discusses the foods
these early Native Americans ate.
Plains
Archaic people discusses the hunter-gatherers of the American plains.
These PaleoIndians big-game hunters exploited a narrow-spectrum, focal resource
base (one, maybe two animal species depending on location - e.g., reindeer
in north; limited range of small game; few if any plants). Long and technical.
Health Issues
and Trans Fat by Mary G. Enig discusses how it was claimed in 1958 that
these were culprits in heart disease, but the edible oil industry quickly
squelched this information.
Do dietary lectins
cause disease? is an editorial in the British Medical Journal which suggests
that lectins, which are high in cereals, potatoes, and beans, may be behind
some autoimmune diseases.
Stone Age
Habitats hasn't much to do with food, but there is mention of cooking
hearths, and a couple nice graphs. But for some reason the time lines are
flipped.
Fattening cattle with corn changes the lipid balance and is clearly not
the natural diet for a grass eating cow. In Simple
change in cattle diets could cut E. coli infection researchers have found
that when cattle were fed hay or grass for just five days before slaughter,
much less E. Coli cells were present in the animal's feces and virtually all
surviving E. coli bacteria were not acid-resistant and were killed by human
stomach acid.
A Hunter-Gatherer
Bibliography compiled by students of James W. Helmer Department of Archaeology,
U. of Calgary. 112K.
J. Ned Woodall, Department of Anthropology, Wake Forest U., teaches a course
on Problems with the Past: Controversial Topics in the Cultural and Physical
Evolution of Humans. Here is the reading
list.
`First
farmers' with no taste for grain is an article by Mike Richards on the
use of meat in ancient British Isles diets. The suggestion is that the Brits
were depending primarily on meat for their nutritition up to around 2000 B.C.
`Man the
Hunter' returns at Boxgrove. Mark Roberts, the Director of the Boxgrove
Project, provides evidence that the hominids of the Lower Palaeolithic period
did hunt their meat.
In sorrow
shalt thou eat all thy days Peter Rowley-Conwy, Archaeology at the University
of Durham, argues that many hunter-gatherers never wanted to farm.
Kristin D. Sobolik is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Quaternary
Studies at U. of Maine. She has a home
page listing her publications, many of which are on prehistoric diets.
Hunter/gatherers often eat grubs. Entomologists at the University
of Iowa have created some recipes based on insects, and insects can be
bought via internet.
The Food Insects
Newsletter site includes selected on-line articles from back issues. Probably
more paleo than most people can handle.
Bugfood!
is by the U. of Kentucky Department of Entomology. Discusses insects as food
and insect snacks from around the world.
New road reveals Stone Age site which may provide evidence of fire in the British Isles back between 250,000 and 300,000 years ago.
High-cholesterol diet 'doesn't increase stroke risk' reports on a study of 43,000 middle-aged men. While it finds no correlation with stokes and fatty foods, they did not look for a correlation with anything else.
Meat eating is an old human habit reports on an analysis of our ancestor's teeth that shows we became meat eaters 2.5 million years ago.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson spent many years as an Eskimo among Eskimos. After a year experiment eating only meat at Bellevue Hospital, he wrote about his experiment and his years as an Eskimo in Adventures in Diet, a three part series Harper's Monthly Magazine, November 1935 - January 1936.
In Chips means zits Loren Cordain blames today's refined foods, such as bread, rice and cakes, for the pimples suffered by 95% of westernized teenagers.
Animal Protein Consumption Associated With Bone Density in Elderly Women. This isn't really new. Herta Spencer back in the 80's showed that meat helped if an adequate amount of calcium was consumed. Studies showing that protein was bad used isolated, fractionated animo acids from milk or eggs.
In Bread blamed for short sight Jennie Brand Miller links the dramatic increase in myopia in developed countries on childhood over-consumption of bread.
Meat Eating More Healthy in Prehistoric Times discusses the healthier fats in wild meat. Loren Cordain's team compared the muscle, brain, bone marrow and fat of wild animals with those of cattle.
The Caveman Diet by Jeanie Davis is an MSN article touting the benefits of grass fed bison.
High 'Good' Cholesterol Level Lowers Stroke Risk is a news report highlighting that high HDL is the only indicator of lower stroke risk. However, it fails to mention that a low-carb diet is the only diet that increases HDL.
Neanderthals Were As Smart As Us reports on new research that reveals that Neanderthals were not dumb, but had the technical and intellectual skills to put them on an equal basis with modern humans.
Seafood Gave Modern Humans Edge reports that by studying the chemicals that remained in the bones of the earliest modern humans, scientists discovered that their diet, included fish and fowl as well as large mammals. The Neanderthals, on the other hand, only ate large mammals, which became extinct. Also see Fishy clue to rise of humans.
Agriculture Is Bad for You is a Time Europe article pointing out that some dieticians recommend we change our eating habits to resemble those of our ancestors. A pro-Paleo article!
Coconut oil promises to be anti-viral agent reports on trials that have confirmed that coconut oil has an anti-viral effect that reduces the viral level in HIV-AIDS patients to undetectable levels.
The Soft Science of Dietary Fat is a summary of an article in Science Magazine reporting that mainstream nutritional science has demonized dietary fat, yet 50 years and hundreds of millions of dollars of research have failed to prove that eating a low-fat diet will help you live longer. In fact, there are good reasons to believe high-carbohydrate diets may be even worse than high-fat diets. Here is the original article.
Fatty Fish Protects Hearts of All Ages reports that those who consumed fatty fish even just once a week lowered their risk of a fatal heart attack by 44% compared to the risk among those who did not opt for the fish.
Homocysteine A Possible Risk Factor For Alzheimer's discusses an association between Alzheimer's disease and moderately-elevated blood levels of the amino acid, homocysteine. Homocysteine levels can be reduced by consumption of foods with folic acid and vitamin B12, i.e. greens and meat.
Early Humans Had Woodworking Technology reports on finding evidence that humans produced wood tools, possibly spears, 1.5 million years ago. This is a million years earlier than previously believed.
Harvard Magazine on Paleolithic Fast Food. By excavating a cave they found that animals that move slower were eaten in the past and in later years ones that move faster were eaten.
The discovery of fire speculates that man controlled fire 1.6 million years ago. Circumstantial evidence also suggests that they were cooking their food.
Insulin-Like Compound Predicts Stroke Risk states that insulin resistance (which is usually caused by excessive carb intake, meaning that caused by normal intake of grains and sugar) is a predictor (i.e. indicates increase risk) of strokes.
New Human Ancestor? Two and a half million years ago a humanlike creature in what is now Ethiopia raised a stone and smashed it down on an antelope bone to get at the marrow and fat inside. This is the earliest known evidence of a stone tool used to butcher an animal.
New Species Of Human Ancestor. A more detailed version than the ABC News one. They also ate catfish and horse. Note the bit about "high fat meat"!
Scientific American has an interesting article about the ill effects of sugar and aging at: AGE Breakers - Rupturing the body's sugar-protein bonds might turn back the clock. Typically, the drug companies are trying to develop a drug to fight off the symptoms rather than treating the cause of the problems with a proper diet.
A taste for meat argues that our ancestors three million years ago ate a lot of small mammals that could be caught without tools. Published in Science Magazine (which requires a subscription).
The Caveman Diet is the CBS story on 48 hours where they featured Ray Audette and the paleo diet. Focuses on weight loss.
Modern Stone Age food is an article based on an interview with Boyd Eaton that appeared in the USA Weekend insert magazine.
In What the Hominid Ate by analyzing carbon atoms in tooth enamel researchers challenge the widely held belief that these 3 million year ago homnoids ate little more than fruits and leaves.
The Electronic Telegraph had a 12-Aug-97 article "Barbecues are a thing of the past". Some archaeologists from Liverpool University working in the Suffolk forest found what they believe may be a hearth that is 400,000 years old. [Free registration required]
Eating Like a Caveman is a page written by Kathleen Doheny. She gives an overview of the paleo diet, then tells of her experience of trying it for a day. Includes this quote by Loren Cordain "If it's a fad, it's the oldest fad going."
A small subset of the people eating only raw foods are eating animal foods (RAF). And some of them have put up a resource page for Raw Paleolithic Diets.
Protein-Rich Diets May Reduce Heart Disease Risk is a report on a prospective cohort study showing higher protein intake is associated with reduced risk of heart disease among women. Though this report is filled with politically correct commentary which was not part of the study as published.
Food is part of the Vegan Straight-Edge site. The page is almost a resource page for paleodiet, with the sole exception of the comments about meat and protein requirements. It's quite interesting. Other pages at the site include: The origins of agriculture - a biological perspective and a new hypothesis in which Greg Wadley & Angus Martin argue that the shift to cultivation and animal domestication was due to the "comfort" derived from the opioid peptides from gluten. And John Coleman's Opioids In Common Food Products-Addictive Peptides In Meat, Dairy and Grains. (There isn't any evidence presented that this is an issue with meat, but it is a vegan site!)
Paleolithic diet is a definition found in the Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine.
A hunting rights group has put up Eating Meat is Natural, written by Jim Powlesland. It appears to be a summary from "The Paleolithic Prescription: A Program of Diet & Exercise and a Design for Living".
Diet and the evolution of the earliest human ancestors is a study of jaw size and shape, tooth size, shape, and wear patterns, which give clues as to what the earliest human ancestors ate two to four million years ago.
Concerns Regarding Soybeans by Mary Enig and Sally Fallon discusses the negatives with soy consumption. Abstracted from Health Freedom News, September 1995.
Soy Online Service is a New Zealand site dedicated to "uncovering the truth about soy".
Tragedy and Hype is a very comprehensive article on soy that appeared in Nexus Magazine. Shows how the soy industry manipulated things to turn their toxic food into a health food.
Ray Peat's Newsletter has a web site with some sample articles. There are two articles of interest to Paleodieters: "The Benefits of Coconut Oil" and "Toxicity of Unsaturated Oils". When you click on them then select open. A Ray Peat coconut oil article also appears Dr. Mercola's site: The Benefits of Coconut Oil.
American Scientist had an article on Chimpanzee Hunting Behavior and Human Evolution by Craig B. Stanford in the May-June 1995 issue. It discusses British primatologist Jane Goodall's observations.
The Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation promotes some Paleolithic nutrition concepts, though they recommend dairy, a non-paleo food. Many good articles worth reading there.
Why I Am Not a Vegetarian by Dr. William T. Jarvis makes comments about the "ideological" commitment to a diet that are at least as interesting as the comments about diet itself.
A Diet Solution Based on Evolution points out that most of the calories consumed today are from foods that did not exist in the past, but then the article ends up with the politically correct twist that saturated fats are bad. Mostly is a book report on Loren Cordain's The Paleo Diet.
The Myths of Vegetarianism by Stephen Byrnes goes through many of the arguments that vegetarians use and explains why they are myths. A must read for all vegetarians.
The Lectin Report explains the background on lectins and their connection to health problems.
The Homocysteine Revolution is an interview with Dr. Kilmer McCully. High homocysteine levels have been connected with heart disease. Folic acid (highest in leafy green vegetables) and B12 (abundant in animal proteins) help keep homocysteine levels under control.
In an interview with Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. She expresses clearly her well qualified opinion that saturated fats are NOT the problem they are reputed to be. Over two pages: Health Risks from Processed Foods and Trans Fats Part 1 + Parts 2 + 3.
Insulin and It's Metabolic Effects by Ron Rosedale MD deals with insulin as the "master switch" for a large number of disease processes. Argues that low insulin is key for long lifespan. Overly long.
Elson M. Haas, M.D. has written a nice summary of Types of Diets. Has sections on the Paleolithic and 14 other diets. Put up by Healthy Net.
Dr Stoll's Sugar and Immunity is an article on the Leukocytic Index which shows the devastating effect of refined carbohydrates on immunity.
The Skinny on Fat is an overview of the different types of fat and their uses in the body by Dr. Michael G. Kurilla, M.D.
Jonathan Bowden, M.A. has a two part non-technical introduction to The Paleolithic Diet.
Why Americans Are So Fat by William Faloon blames a deficiency of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) for why we have become fat. CLA is found in beef and milk fat, both of which are decreasing in our diets. In addition CLA is much lower in grain fed cows than in grass fed ones.
Just Game Recipes has just what it says. Not all are paleo, but lots of good ideas for cooking game.
The Australian Native Food Industry gets into Australia's unique edible plants and animals that could form the basis for a substantial and sustainable industry.
Eskimo Ice-cream discusses food in the Inuit culture and includes some recipes.
The Dry Store has the American Harvest GardenMaster Dehydrator. This is one of the two leading choice for serious dehydrating. Can run with 30 trays.
The Excalibur Dehydrator Website includes a pitch for dehydrating foods and showcases their dehydrators with square trays that slide in like a drawer, and not stacked like the round ones. This is the other leading choice.
Excalibur Dehydrator has quite a bit of information on dehydrating, including its history, along with a sales pitch to buy their high-end dehydrators.
The L'EQUIP Model 528 Food Dehydrator is a rectangular model that can have up to 20 trays. Has computer-controlled dehydrator sensor.
Has Dehydrators made from the finest birch plywood. Plus they have a book for sale.
The Harvest Saver is a compact, small volume drying system. They also have A Basic Look at Dehydration which covers the technical aspects of dehydration from a commercial point-of-view.
The National Food Safety Database lost its funding and it seems that
only pieces now remain. The
Food and Nutrition Publications page has a couple of links to Fruit Freezing
and Home Drying in the General section. The wild game info is gone.
Drying and Curing Food points to articles from the Michigan State University Extension, the Florida Cooperative Extension Service, and other sources.
The PaleoDIET mailing list is a RESEARCH oriented list. To get a subscription questionnaire send a message to listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu with SUB PALEODIET yourfirstname yourlastname in the body. Actual subscriptions are processed by the list owner. Searchable archives of the mailing list are available.
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CaveManFood is a Yahoo group on how to eat like our CaveMan ancestors. Light activity.
There is now a newsgroup called alt.support.diet.paleolithic that is independent of the mailing lists. It is not very active.
PADIET-L is an e-mail based discussion forum for topics relating to the origins and evolution of human diet. Little activity. See list archives.
AV-Skeptics - Aajonus Vonderplanitz Skeptics provides a democratic forum for people to deflate the exaggerated promises, fraudulent claims, junk science, invented evidence, and humorous exploits of raw meat gadfly Aajonus Vonderplanitz.
Live-Food Mailing List for persons interested in learning about and experimenting with the use of raw animal foods, and specifically, in the work Aajonus Vonderplanitz. It is recommended that members of the list be familiar with Aajonus Vonderplanitz and his book, "We Want to Live."
EatBugs is a Yahoo group on insect appreciation and eating them for lunch! Very light activity.
