On Aug 04, 2004, at 2:35 pm, Jim Swayze wrote:
> Kristina > I was trying to keep my fat intake low as well.
>
> This could be a *serious* issue.  You cannot do low carb and low fat
> and expect to maintain health.  You need to increase your intake of
> fat, and saturated fat in particular!

Jim,

I agree with you about keeping a healthy minimum of fat in the diet,
but why saturated fat?  I am not overly concerned with the
saturated/unsaturated ratio but the omega3/6 ratio (ie I am happy to
eat, say, belly pork and coconut, but I like to eat a lot of oily fish,
omega-3 rich eggs etc to balance it).  I didn't realise there was
anything inherently good about saturated fats (that is one of those
statements that only sounds normal on a paleo diet group!)

Ashley