Re: Enig and early humans (was: High Cholesterol - (Trans fats)

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No serious CRONIE eats pastry, french fries or fried foods. At least not on

any kind of regular basis.

What our ancestors ate is not necessarily the best for health and longevity.

Our ancestors ate whatever they could easily kill and/or find to eat, not

because it was " good " for them. Most of them died very young by today's

standards, even discounting those that died at the hands of predators. Our

goal here is to maximize health and longevity, which is not the same thing

as mimicking what our ancestors ate.

Enig has been mentioned before. And although she might have some valid

ideas, she is not of the stature of Walford, Pritikin, Ornish, Weindrich,

etc. and other highly esteemed sources whose integrity can not be called

into question.

on 5/13/2004 11:42 AM, citpeks at citpeks@... wrote:

> It may seem so harmless to eat puff pastry, french fries, cookies, or

> fried foods prepared with partially hydrogenated oils, but the

> abnormally shaped trans-fats will eventually have a cumulative

> destructive effect on your cellular structures and they double your

> chance of a heart attack. Our bodies have not evolved to metabolize

> trans fats.

>

> It turns out that the natural fats that served our ancestors so well

> are still the best for our body. Did you know that the composition

> of lard is almost identical to human depot fat? Also, G. Enig,

> an expert on fats, has documented that the saturated fats in coconut

> oil are not " artery clogging " monsters, but instead may support the

> immune system.