Those looking for additional technical / scientific support for a Paleo-style diet might enjoy the following books:
Life Without Bread: How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life
By Christian Allan PhD and Wolfgang Lutz MD
Dangerous Grains: Why Gluten Cereal Grains may be Hazardous to Your Health
By James Braly MD and Ron Hoggan MA
It’s interesting to think about why farmers feed grain (including corn) to livestock: they do it to make them fat. Grain-fed livestock don’t just “mature early”; they’re obese. Unfortunately, feeding them grain also weakens their immune systems and makes them prone to infection, which is why they require antibiotics. Grass-fed livestock don’t have those problems. In fact, grass-fed cattle can be amazingly lean animals.
1. Do we know the quantities of types of foods that Paleo people ate? If not, would this knowledge change the diet recommendations?
One thing we know is that a typical hunter-gatherer tended to eat a few leftovers in the morning, hunt/gather all day, then have a big meal at the end of the day. They were metabolically well-equipped to handle food scarcity / fasting.