Re: Experiences with Atkins diet

From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 16:33:51 MDT

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    gts wrote:
    > Brian Atkins wrote:
    >
    >
    >>I'm looking for opinions regarding this page below...
    >>http://www.westonaprice.org/know_your_fats/skinny.html
    >
    >
    > Great article.
    >
    > As I just finished writing to Harvey, the complete avoidance of saturated
    > fats and cholesterol is unhealthy. Paleolithic meats and eggs are the most
    > obvious sources of both.
    >

    Yes in fact as this other page on the site discusses, eating too little
    saturated fat while eating more Omega-3 can actually be quite bad since
    the body apparently needs to use saturated fats to transform the O3 fats
    into EPA/DHA. This URL also discusses why canola oil ("Canadian Oil" :-)
    might be worth avoiding since it apparently has fairly high amounts of
    hidden trans fats from the extreme amount of processing.

    http://www.westonaprice.org/know_your_fats/conola.html

    Although this particular site has some rather iffy articles, I find the
    ones written by Mary G. Enig are in general quite worth reading. 

    -- 
Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/

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