>Hi all,
>Some time ago I mentioned that we had sent Zoe's stool to Great Smokies Lab
>for CDSA. (Zoe is two and a half years old.)
>
>Today I spoke with the nutirtionist who evaluated the test results together
>with an MD. The test showed that Zoe is not digesting fats well at all. The
>nutritionist knows that we eat generally paleo, and suggested that we
should
>cut back on fat and add more carbs (dates, bananas, honey) to Zoe's diet.
>
>It seems to me that what we need to do is figure out the cause for the poor
>fat digestion. The nutritionist says that this can be caused by the gall
>bladder not producing enough bile, or lack of pancreatic enzyme, or simply
>too much fat in the diet.
>
>Zoe eats a lot of coconut milk, nuts, and pork breakfast sausages. I put
>"raw" olive oil on her vegetables (that is, I don't heat the oil). She eats
>these almost daily. I really didn't think that was too much fat for a
little
>kid. Thoughts?


i had certainly the same problem wthout having it confirmed by a lab test.
I was craving fats never getting satisfied with them , wanting to eat more
.It was making my hair greassy,  my stool fatty.
The problem resolved when i slowed down big time in vegetal sources of fats
( avocados and nuts principally) and got my fill of animal sources of fat
 grass fed animals or wild).( everything raw)
The problem reappear if i eat lamb who have access to grain , or if i eat
too much of avocados or nuts. I didn't observed any of those symptoms no
matter how much fat i can put my hand on ( brain ,bone marrow ,kidney fat or
between muscle fats ) as long it come from wild animals or grass fed >It is
true that the availability of thoses are rather naturally limited ( wild
animals don't carry extra pounds like domestic ones), so i barely can eat
too much.

My explanation of all of that is related to the ratio of the differents
fatty acids ( particulary omega 3s to omega 6) .
The fats of domestic animals fed unnaturally ( grain fed ) are of a
different composition than the  fats of the wild ones.
In your list i see olive oil ,nuts , and pork which have the worst diet in
that regard ( not a mistake ,  farmers want them fat and you can't do that
without denaturing their food).
the coconut if from fresh coconuts might be okay but if coming from a can
and necessarelly heated might reinforce the overload of the wrong kind of
fats . The body is clever enough to not digest more than it need but it can
still be deficient in the right kind of fats . My craving for fat was trying
to deal with that .It took me a while to figure it out that this attraction
was right but my answer was wrong (giving vegetal sourc of fats).
Better eat less fats but the right kind.


jean-claude