Cordain, was/ Gut Treatment in Germany

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>Loren Cordain is someone who does distorted research, anyway. I don't know

>whether he intentionally lies (to himself or to everyone else) or whether

>he's honestly deceived, but have you read his arguments against saturated

>animal fat?

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Yeah, there is a point. However, if you read the data against fat I'm not sure

it is a case of deception. The epidemiological studies do seem, IMO to

show that in our society, people who eat a lot of fat beef seem to have

more problems. And fat milk. And those are the two main sources

of saturated fat in the studies (they don't really have epidemiological data in

the US

for coconut oil). People who eat more " saturated fat " really do have more

problems.

So if you take the studies at face value, a person would

say, " hmm ... saturated fat is bad " .

Which I did until I got more into it ... now I think that the fact the cows are

all on

grain diets and fed hormones probably has more to do with it, plus the fact

the people on high-fat diets are also on high-grain diets. I expect the

researchers

will come around to that conclusion eventually too ... but I don't think it's a

matter of deception. It's a matter of interpreting the data. Sort of like ... if

they did a study on Inuit babies and found that the kids of " traditional eating "

women had lower IQ's, one might think the traditional diet caused that. Until

you found out that the traditional diet now contains dioxin. Fats do hold the

toxins of an animal, and they are imbalanced in grain fed animals, so most

animal fats in the supermarket probably are bad for you (though not NEARLY

as bad as wheat .... )

-- Heidi Jean