What's up with the paleolithic diet?

[Guest guest]

I've read that humans should eat a paleolithic diet, and all " modern " foods

should be eliminated eg. foods such as grains and tubers.

I live in Australia and such a comment makes me scratch my head in confusion.

Australian Aboriginal people were hunter gathers until 220 years ago (pretty

recent in evolutionary time). Australia is a huge country, but depending on

where they lived, Aboriginal people ate:

* Fruit

* Nuts

* Roots, tubers, corms & bulbs

* Seeds & damper (with grindstones dated to 15,000+ years ago)

* Green vegetables

* Honey, gum & nectar

* Land animals (gamey and low in fats)

* Marine animals and fish

* Insects & grubs

Women provided 80% of the food in a community (and except for eggs, fish,

reptiles & small mammals, the diet was largely one of vegetable matter).

source: Bush Food, Issacs, 1991 Ure Press

more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfood

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australian_food_groups

I am not a dietitian or nutritionist. Can someone please illuminate for me how a

high protein, high fat diet is a paleolithic diet?

Many thanks,

Tys.