From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 14:58:53 MDT
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 03:29:16PM -0500, Brian Atkins wrote:
> I'm looking for opinions regarding this page below...
>
> http://www.westonaprice.org/know_your_fats/skinny.html
I note that a couple of times they cite studies condemning "margarine and
vegetable oils", but as they note farther down hydrogenated margarine isn't
the same as unrefined olive oil, for example. And the Masai and Eskimos
probably get a *lot* more exercise and just how long do they live, anyway?
The French drink their glass of wine with their fatty meals.
> not find any isolated peoples who consumed polyunsaturated oils.) The
> groups he studied particularly valued the deep yellow butter produced by
> cows feeding on rapidly growing green grass.
...which isn't the same as our grain-fed dairy cows, as gts keeps telling us.
> containing them. They rightly believed such foods to be necessary for
> fertility and the optimum development of children.
which gets back to "what are we trying to optimize?" Note the current
American diet does seem to be good at pushing our girls into puberty early.
Whether that's good is another issue.
-xx- Damien X-)
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