>Don't get me wrong, this is a diet which Schmid probably does great
 >on & which gives him "health."  But there is no doubt that it is a
 >diet which ages him faster & drastically raises the odds that he
 >will develop cancer.  Life without fruit is markedly shorter than
 >life with it, so I would not rush out to eat lots of protein.  Just
 >because you might feel good on a diet does not mean that it is
 >necessarily the best for you.

Hi Doug,

In his book "Instinctive Nutrition", Severen Schafer explains how eating cooked
eggs raises one's serum cholesterol levels, while eating them raw actually
lowers them. He claims that this is because an enzyme that occurs in raw eggs is
absent after cooking. (Since I don't have the book with me right now, I can't
supply the name of this magic enzyme.)

Severen Schafer is advertised to be on the faculty of the Paris School of
Medicine. He appears to be highly respected in the instincto community (people
tend to recommend his book at a "first read" to people interested anopsology.)
If he is on the medical teaching faculty, his academic credentials are
are most probably also impeccable. I really enjoyed reading his book, and got a
lot more out of it than Guy-Claude's Manger Vrai. Therefore I would be very
interested if anybody has any evidence to refute Severen's claim on raw eggs.

If this raw egg claim were true, it might be the case that our protein/carb/fat
equation for optimal health holds only for a cooked, enzyme-free food.
Perhaps we need to dissect what exactly it is about protein that shortens one's
life span. Is it the wear and tear due to "dirty burning" of calories, the
consequent uric acid, or is it the cholesterol that accompanies most commonly
consumed high-protein sources?

By the way, thanks for the pointer to the glycemic index information on the vrc
page!


Regards,


Roy