Jim > The body passes unneeded fat.

Todd > Does it?

Let me answer this by first getting out of the way what is probably already
very obvious.  I don't share the credentials of many on this list.  I don't
have a degree in nutrition, I write no magazine articles, I have no clients
or patients who rely upon my expert opinion.  I have no life threatening
diseases which might impel me to take a little more seriously the enormous
variety of dietary opinion and knowledge.  Perhaps what follows is an
unforgivable sin of oversimplication, which is why I ask for help in
working through these issues.

Now, here goes.  It might require a major modification to dominant dietary
theory, but yes I do believe the body passes or somehow magically rids
itself of unneeded fat.  Is there any other explanation for why it is that
I'm consuming FIVE TIMES more fat (and who knows how many more calories)
than before I started the paleo diet yet have now lost twenty pounds?  I'm
obviously not holding on to the greatly increased amount of fat and
calories I'm consuming, yet I am losing weight with little to no effort.
Again, I don't want to oversimply a potentially very complex subject, but
where is the fat going?

I believe that Ray and some very few others have already told us the
primary function of the body's retention of fat.  If you don't need the
protection from foreign proteins in foods we shouldn't be eating, the body
meets its energy needs and passes the unneeded fat.

Jim Swayze