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From:   Paleolithic Eating Support List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Susan Carmack
Sent:   Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:47 AM
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Subject:        Re: [P-F] Protein requirements

Hi Todd,

I enjoyed reading your post. I was wondering..
How does high cholesterol affect your day?
If you didn't know about cholesterol, would you be concerned about it?
Do you have more energy and less disease eating the way you do now?

>I think you are too quick to conclude that the Paleodiet pages
>present the Last Word on such matters.

I think so too. However, I know if I ate unadulterated wild meat raw I
would be better off than  eating what I ate yesterday which was farm fresh
eggs (ok), freshly picked blackberries (ok),
NZ lamb pemmican with coconut oil (wondering what the lamb ate; feel
queezy; have restless leg, bloating), salmon (wondering what the mercury
level was) fruit (what pesticides were used?) bananas (have 'they' spiked
them with cholera vaccine yet?)....

>  Loren Cordain, for example,
>apparently accepts the mainstream idea that saturated fats and
>serum cholesterol are problematic.

A lot of scientists don't....
My next door neighbour is a hunter. He told me he throws out the organ
meats!!! because of the high cholesterol! I hope I was able to change his
mind...

>not persuaded that elevated LDL cholesterol is
>necessary a cause of any health problem, but I do think it is a
>marker for some metabolic imbalance or other.

In Lynne McTaggart's book, What Doctors Don't Tell You, she sites numerous
studies that indicate that cholesterol plays no part in heart attack or
disease. The chapter is called Crazy About Cholesterol - Medicine's Red
Herring.
She also recommends that we not believe test results. They are wrong at
least 50% of the time.

>According to Eaton, typical cholesterol readings of contemporary
>hunter-gatherers are low -- about 150,

But of HGs of the past...we don't know their readings.
It's too bad Weston Price didn't test cholesterol levels rather than for
cavities..

>as I recall.  A reading of
>200 is considered "normal" in developed countries,

who decided that?

>  In those 2 years my
>HDL has gone up somewhat, from 35 to 47.

>I also have not lost much weight on this diet, except during the
>caloric restriction periods.

I haven't either but I feel better, have more energy and don't get
sick-(except when I eat brains.. or meat that has been fed glutenous
grains).
How much weight are you trying to lose?
'They' say it isn't good to lose too fast.

>  My body fat is 19%.

What does that mean?

>but now I'm considering whether it
>might be eating too much protein at a time, since I do enjoy
>large steaks and the like.

Have you considered that the grain fed meat could be stalling your weight
loss?
I ask this because I have always had a weight problem and I discovered that
it was due to gluten intolerance. Once I got the gluten out, I lost weight.
Now that I am eating meat again, not only am I having more 'gluten
mistakes' than when I was a vegetarian, but my weight is going up too! It
is hard to believe that there is more gluten evident in meat than in
vegetarian cuisine. It only takes one molecule of gluten to totally wreck
one's day and one's metabolism.

>   So I shall try the experiment and see
>how it turns out.

I am interested in what you are eating and intend to eat in your experiment
and how it goes.

All the best,
Susan