IIRC Loren Cordain was comparing wild animals (fat content 2-3% from his
studies) and modern farmed animals (up to 30% fat in some cases in the US)



Sean McBride
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
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From: "Frances Ross" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: New here and a question


> life's easy
> >if you assume what you want to prove..
>
> Isn't it just.
>
> Thanks for getting back so quick. Did he mean lower when compared to
todays
> typical diet (full of transfatty acids) or just low? I would assume that
> compared to the domesticated animals we mostly eat today that paleo wild
> animals would have less fat (you don't often see a fat wild animal). But
then
> the nuts and seeds would have a high fat content. Of course it would be
> another matter if one was an Inuit. Do/did they eat the blubber or use it
just
> for lighting and things? And then of course all that lovely oily fish.
Just
> trying to get a good perspective on all this.
>
> Fran
>
>   >===== Original Message From Paleolithic Eating Support List
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> >>Can you enlighten me and give me a quick run down on his >central thesis
> >and why it is so wrong.
> >
> >that paleo man ate a relatively low-fat diet.  Cordain is one of the
'fake
> >opposition' an establishment low fat man trying to derail the genuine low
> >carb movement.
> >
> >I personally wrote to Cordain to ask him how he concluded Australian
> >aborigines ate a low fat diet. he confirmed my suspicion that he had done
no
> >studies at all in the area and had relied on two papers, one of which was
a
> >short experiment conducted in 1965, and another of which was a paper put
out
> >by another establishment gnome [brand-miller] who merely assumes that
> >aborigines ate a diet equally weighted between fats and carbs.  life's
easy
> >if you assume what you want to prove..
> >
> >andrew
>
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