See this site:
    www.ahoa.org.au

It's not Paleo - makes use of dairy etc. But I've met people who use it and
it put's the lie to "Saturated fats are bad".

Regards,
Craig.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lurisia Dale" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 3:07 PM
Subject: saturated fats


> A passage in Dr. Cordain's book _The Paleo Diet_ discusses the dangers of
a diet
> which is BOTH high-fat and high-calorie.  I was curious if anyone on this
list
> has another view on the subject, or knows of any references that have
another
> view.  I'm trying to research all sides.  Here is the passage (p.12):
>
> "Despite what anybody tells you--despite the outrageous claims of the
> low-carbohyrdate, high-fat diet doctors--if you eat a lot of the saturated
fats
> found in cheeses, butter, and bacon and don't cut you overall calorie
intake,
> your cholesterol will go up.  The medical community has known this for
more than
> fifty years.  It's been demonstrated in hundreds of clinical trials,
including
> metabolic ward studies, in which people are locked into a hospital wing
and only
> allowed to eat foods that have been carefully weighted and analyzed.  Many
of
> the low-carbohydrate diet doctors claim that these clinical trials are
invalid
> because none of them reduced the carbohydrate content sufficiently.  These
> doctors should know better; low carbohydrates don't guarantee low
cholesterol.
>
> "Dr. Stephen Phinney and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of
> Technology conducted a normal caloric intake metabolic ward trial
involving nine
> healthy, lean men.  These men consumed nothing but meat, fish, eggs,
cheese, and
> cream for thirty-five days.  They had a low carbohydrate intake--less than
20
> grams a day--but it didn't matter.  Their blood cholesterol levels still
went
> up, from 159 to 208 on average in just thirty-five days.  This study and
others
> prove beyond a doubt that diets high in saturated fats--no matter how low
the
> carbohydrate content--will raise blood cholesterol levels when caloric
intake
> levels are normal.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts,
> Lurisia
>