Jens Wilkinson wrote:

> Finally, serum cholesterol levels for hunter-gatherers
> are astonishingly low by modern standards--in the
> 101-146 mg/dl range. (See Eaton et al. [1988, pp.
> 742-745] for the tables the preceding data comes
> from.)
>
> If one's goal is to try to regain the readings of our
> paleo ancestors, then what is to be made of this?

Then you have a sure sign that the "paleo emulation diet" how is is
practized by the most - by eating predominately farmed animals -
is on the wrong track.

Farmed animals aren't paleo food items.
The main reason IMO is their fat composition, which differs very much
from wild animals (and plants). Animals which are kept to grow and
increase weight as fast as possible build up fat deposits never found in
a wild animal. Quick growth with abundance of food leads to
predominately saturated, or mufa fat.

Show me a wild animal with a fat composition close to a pig or to beef.
You won't find it.

regards

Amadeus S.