> That's one of the things that is so annoying about Cordain's book, the
way he keeps repeating over and over all through it: "lean meats, fresh
fruits, and vegetables",

> He flatly states that saturated fats are bad. Didn't many >people alive
today have their genetics molded by ice-ages, >living off of large  northern
prey (including extinct ones such as >mastodons and cave bears)  with large
depots of saturated >fat? He says to eat skinless chicken  breast.

exactly right again.  He is a masqerader like Dr Weil.  Not only common
sense but a small amount of research refutes his postion entirely. he would
be expelled for academic fraud if his research as presented as a university
research paper, but since it is only cartoon stuff for the masses he can get
away with it.  It's a simple fact that primitive man ate all the animl fat
he could get hold off, from mammals, fish, sea mammmals, eggs, lizards etc.
The exact ratio of SFA to MUFA would obviously vary from place to place and
season to season, but not hugely. 70-80% of calories from fat seems likely.

andrew