Dori Zook wrote:

> Saturated fat, in laymen's terms, "hardens" cell walls, making it harder
> for
> insulin to flow in and out of the cell and, thus, leading to excess insulin
> (hyperinsulinemia).

I've found a pdf describing how EFAs work in cell walls:
http://www.getziggys.com/Chapter2Summary.pdf
It appears that the EFAs in various positions of cell walls not only
make them more fluid and permeable to glucose, but also permeable to all
the other nutrients which have to pass cell walls.

> Also, if the goal is to BURN stored fat -- aka
> saturated fat -- why eat it?

I also wonderered about that. If you have "enough" stored fat to satisfy
your body's energy requirements it should be possible to eat only a
moderate amount of pure protein (RDA should be enough - 55g). Plus a
source of all the vitamins and minerals. plus a source of the essential
carbs (500kcal carb or half of it when in ketosis).
Then the other 1000-2000 kcal could come from stored fat, wouldn't that
be possible?
Why eat additional fat if you have body fat you'd want to use?

Theoretically it would be a little difficult to get enough vitamins.
Some 3 or 4 lbs of meat would be necessary for the vitamins - nobody
could stand that on the long run (too much nitrogen).
But to add a lot of (low carb if you like) vegetables could serve the
purpose.

Then there's the essential need of glucose for the brain. The body and
it's cravings are very much after it. They have to get a minimum glucose
level every minute of the human life -- or they would be suspect to die.
This glucose (>500 or 250 kcal) you could get from tons of protein..
or a slowly releasing carb source.
Ideally a food item which is releasing glucose into the blood so slowly
that it almost matches the usage rate of the brain plus the short term
glycogen storage in the liver.

If one could find a nutrition plan with this characteristics and a
convincing theory how and why to do it --- that should become very
successful.

regards

Amadeus