Quote from: kgriffen on July 06, 2010, 02:10:37 PM

I'm curious as to why dairy is not considered Paleo, but I'm not opposed to eliminating it.

Back in the paleolithic - the old stone age - we didn't milk aurochs; we killed them and ate them.  Herding and dairying weren't practiced until the neolithic - the new stone age, starting around 10,000 years ago - when agriculture also started.

There have been a few gross mutations during the neolithic, and they include lactase persistence in some people to help digest milk sugar, as well as multiple copies of the amylase gene in some people, to help digest the starches in grains.  However, one mutation is far from a complete adaptation to a food - the proteins in cow's milk, which are unlike human milk proteins, cause problems just as the proteins in grains do.  In contrast, the 2,000,000 years of the paleolithic was enough time for a more complete adaptation to the foods we ate back then.

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That being said, I'm not going to eliminate something I like and seems to cause me no issues just to keep a label.  I probably should eliminate it for a bit, its easy to do as my diet is not extremely varied at this time.

Going without dairy for a month or two might be a good approach.  That said, some people do find that the paleo diet is too strict and not for them.

You can EAT water now?