I had read that blueberries or other berries were added by the white settlers because they didn't like the flavor of pemmican without them. The water content in the berries would make the pemmican spoil faster. But traditional Sioux style pemmican is all fat and meat.
he he... BAS is a phrase that I got from Mark Sisson at marksdailyapple.com . He advocates a BAS every day. I try to eat one every day as it helps to fill me up and I have no craving for counter-surfing afterwards. :) I think that sounds really good, Heather, with the artichoke hearts, bacon, and olives! I'll have to give that a try. My BAS usually consists of Romaine, red cabbage, carrots, plum tomatoes, onions, jalapenos, cliantro, bell peppers, radishes, lime juice, sunflower seeds, salt and pepper, balsamic vinegar, and olive oil. Sometimes I'll throw in broccoli and cauliflower. Last night I also had a big bowl of steel cut oats dipped in buttermilk and a can of sardines.
I totally agree about humans as omnivores. We certainly have enzymes and system functions for meat and vegetation. We can survive on just vegetation for a while and we can survive on just meat for a while and be just fine. We can pick and choose from just about anything and the body will adapt. And since Earth's climate has changed many times in the last 2.5 million years of our development we had to survive on whatever nature threw our way. Additionally, just the changes of season bring different types of food. In the summer when it's hot, it's much easier to just pick apples and cabbage than chase down some animal and drag it back to camp, cut it open, and process all of it's parts. During the winter, the vegetation is scarce so we had to go out and hunt more for sustenance. Sometimes I'll go for a week and eat just chicken or fish. Sometimes I'll have a BAS every day. Just depends on what my body tells me it needs.
Crap, gotta get to work!
-Rick
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
>
> Actually the pemmican had berries and a lot of fat in it. Eating JUST jerky
> creates a kind of protein poisoning that the pioneers called "rabbit
> starvation". But I agree about grains, esp. wheat: it messes up digestion
> big time. Rice doesn't appear to do that so much, although it is lacking in
> nutrients: a large portion of the human population these days lives off
> white rice mostly with bits of meat and some vegies, and they live longer
> than the average person in the US.
>
> Some "meat" foods ... like eggs, shellfish, whole small fish, milk ... are
> rather balanced and people can live on them. The actual populations that
> don't do farming DO eat a lot of those kinds of foods, plus greens and
> berries and seaweed. Humans are big time omnivores, always have been! There
> is a really interesting article about this:
>
> http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/12/of-neanderthals-and-dairy-farmers/
>
>
> BTW someone asked me privately what "BAS" stands for. It's our official term
> :-) for what sounds to me like a great lunch: Rick's "Big A$$ Salad". I can
> only imagine what is in his, but if it was mine, it would be a big pile of:
> lettuce, artichoke hearts, olives, roasted nuts, dried cranberries, bacon,
> tomatoes, chopped fresh herbs ... tossed with a mixture of fresh-pressed
> garlic, vinegar, and olive oil.
>
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