On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Larelle wrote:

> >If there is a lot of saturated fat floating around in the
> >bloodstream, then at least one BIG problem is that the fat simply plugs up
> >everything! If you've ever seen the video by Dr. Michael Klaper, Diet for
> All
> >Reasons, he shows what happens in a tube of blood drawn from a patient who
> has
> >just eaten a triple-bypass special, fries and a shake at the local
> McGrease.

Actually, McDonald's now uses vegetable oil for cooking fries,
and I believe the "milk shakes" are themselves concocted from
soybean oil and various dairy by-products, with various vegetable
thickeners, etc.  My comment had to do with the contribution of
saturated fats to insulin resistance.  I think the meal described
here would in fact be rather low in saturates.

> >Within a half an hour, the top half of the test tube is filled with grease
> and
> >fat. Pretty disgusting-looking. I suspect that the average meat-eater's
> blood is
> >loaded with sludge all the time, making all sorts of chemical reactions
> >difficult.

For some reason, I am skeptical of this experimental protocol.

Todd Moody
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