Dear Tamarian,

Although I have online access to full text articles from New England Journal of Medicine, their archive does not go back to 1985. I can suggest a citation retrieval service that can fax the entire article to you for $10 if you wish. In the meantime, here are other citations that may interest you.

Yours is:
N Engl J Med 1985 Jan 31;312(5):283-9

Paleolithic nutrition. A consideration of its nature and current implications.

Eaton SB, Konner M.

This article was reexamined in 1997 and may be purchased online at:
http://www.naturesj.com/ejcn/prices.html

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Eur J Clin Nutr 1997 Apr;51(4):207-16

Comment in:
Eur J Clin Nutr. 1997 Oct;51(10):715-6.

Paleolithic nutrition revisited: a twelve-year retrospective on its nature and implications.

Eaton SB, Eaton SB 3rd, Konner MJ.

Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta GA, USA
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Unfortunately the following journal only goes back to 1996 online.
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ASDC J Dent Child 1986 Jul-Aug;53(4):300-3

Stone age nutrition: implications for today.

Eaton SB, Konner MJ.

The nutritional elements appropriate for contemporary humans reflect genetically determined biochemical and physiological factors, which have evolved over hundreds of millions of years. Stone Age humans, however, derived nearly all of their nutrients from just two of the four major food groups we select from today.

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Unfortunately, the following journal only has years 2001 and 2002 online.

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Nutr Rev 1999 Jan;57(1):11-4
http://www.ilsi.org/publications/ordernr.html

Dietary fat: a history.

Lichtenstein AH.

Lipid Metabolism Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

Dietary fat intake and its effect on human health is a hotly debated issue and major point of interest in nutrition research and practice today. This review traces the history of dietary fat intake, the influence of human evolution on dietary fat intake, and the relationship between dietary fat and health.

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Nutr Rev 1989 Nov;47(11):337-45


Comment in:
Nutr Rev. 1990 May;48(5):227-30.

What did our ancestors eat?

Garn SM, Leonard WR.

Over the millennia various hominoids and hominids have subsisted on very different dietaries, depending on climate, hunting proficiency, food-processing technology, and available foods. The Australopithecines were not browsers and fruit-eaters with very high intakes of vitamin C; rather they were scavengers of kills made by other animals. The hominids who followed did include some cold-climate hunters of large game, but the amount of animal protein decreased with the advent of grain-gathering and decreased further with the introduction of cereal agriculture, with a concomitant decrease in body size. From what we know about food adequacy, preparation, and storage, the notion that the postulated "primitive" diet was generally adequate, safe, and prudent can be rejected. Over evolutionary time, many of our ancestors ate poorly, especially during climate extremes, and they were often at risk for vitamin deficiencies, food-borne diseases, and neurotoxins. Until the advent of modern processing technologies, dirt, grit, and fiber constituted a large part of most early diets.
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Sorry I couldn't get the article you wanted. I hope some of this information is a little bit helpful.