At 07:46 PM 4/9/06 -0400, SUBSCRIBE PALEOFOOD Anonymous wrote:
>I am reading Cordain's book

Please don't.

Cordain is an apologist for the lipid theory, the cholesterol theory, and 
the AMA/AHA.   His book is an infomercial designed to snowjob the public 
into thinking his politically-correct version is actually Paleo.  I'm 
wading through it myself (to write a review of it) ... and I keep waiting 
for Richard Simmons to pop out.

Do yourself a favor and instead read Weston Price, Mary Enig, Sally Fallon, 
Boyd Eaton... And follow the links you find from there.  I've got a few for 
starters:

Characteristics of Traditional Diets
http://gettingprimitive.com/?q=node/109

Traditional Diets (archive at the Weston Price Foundation):
http://www.westonaprice.org/traditional_diets/index.html

Cave Men Diets Offer Insights to Today's Health Problems (this is an 
article by Cordain at Mercola.com, but pay attention to the note by Dr. 
Stephen Byrnes at the end of the article:
http://www.mercola.com/2002/feb/23/caveman_diet.htm

The Truth About Saturated Fat - By Mary Enig, PhD, and Sally Fallon
http://mercola.com/2002/aug/17/saturated_fat1.htm

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