Paleo diet - fad or phenom?

[ian]

Huh?

There was so much wrongness on that page that it actually melted my head.

[Bledlow]

Yeah.

Palaeolithic humans ate all the fruit they could get hold of. But that site forbids it, along with loads of other complete bollocks.

[Chris S]

Just found an article on the interwebs about native American diets. This quote drew my attention:

“In the old days we used to eat the guts of the buffalo, making a contest of it, two fellows getting hold of a long piece of intestines from opposite ends, starting chewing toward the middle, seeing who can get there first; that’s eating. Those buffalo guts, full of half-fermented, half-digested grass and herbs, you didn’t need any pills and vitamins when you swallowed those.”

Nom... 

ETA: Oh - I've just discovered what Succotash is. " ...a dish comprised of beans, corn, dog meat and bear fat".