Re: Price Factor...Aha moment

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In a message dated 8/1/02 5:51:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

s.fisher22@... writes:

> e) CLA is unique (i think) to bovines..? Or, at least, it's most abundant in

> bovine milk/tissue. CLA is 9-cis 11-trans (apparently a *healthy* transfat

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> a fairly unique situation).

i forget the details, but mary enig explains trans fats in know your fats,

that the naturally occuring trans-fats have their double bonds in different

spots than the hydrogenated ones, and she separates them into two further

categories to reflect that.

chris

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>>>>i forget the details, but mary enig explains trans fats in know your

fats,

that the naturally occuring trans-fats have their double bonds in different

spots than the hydrogenated ones, and she separates them into two further

categories to reflect that.

---->yup...i glanced at that page in KYF to verify my thoughts on CLA

Interestingly, the researcher who isolated CLA two decades ago, Parodi

(Australian lipid biochemist), originally named it " alpha-rumenic acid. "

another interesting tidbit, enig also writes that *humans* can make CLA from

trans-vaccenic acid that we get from milk fat...

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>>>>>>>a) unjointed grasses (young grasses, such as the Swiss' in NAPD) have

an

*extremely high* carotene content. One source i have, lists 52,000 IU per

100 grams (as opposed to 10,000 for kale or 8,000 for spinach, for example).

I don't know how many grams of grass cows typically eat per day,

though...anyone? but 100 grams is about 3 1/2 ounces.

---------------->someone contacted me offlist about the nutrient comparison

i referenced here. apparently, the high beta-carotene content of unjointed

grasses is artificially inflated because it's comparing *dry* grass powder

to wet veggies. So scratch that as a reference point for wet grass. however,

i'm thinking young (june) grasses are nonetheless quite high in a lot of

nutrients (as are other young plants), including b-c. at least, that's what

i gather from most of the materials i've read so far, not the least of which

is WAP's observation of how deeply yellow/orange *june* butter is. another

thing that would suggest a relatively high b-c content in grass is that it's

generally well-exposed to the sun (unlike forest forage), and since b-c acts

to protect plants from sun damage, i'm guessing the more exposed a plant,

the higher the b-c concentration...? which, i imagine, is why some

equitorial plants are so brightly pigmented...

Suze Fisher

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