Charles Alban wrote:
from personal experience. You cannot eat too much fat, because it triggers
the satiation response, and is thus self limiting.

My reply:
A person can eat too much fat for his or her calorie needs, which can stall
fat loss or lead to fat gain.  Even on a paleo diet a person can overshoot
his or her daily calorie expenditure by eating too much fat.

Charles wrote:
You can eat a lot of protein (I gobbled up a whole lot of jerky recently,
which of course has no fat, and I did not feel satiated)...

My reply:

When you ate 4 ounces of jerky in one sitting, you were eating the
equivalent of 1 to 1 1/4 pounds of meat in one sitting.  It may be easy to
eat a lot of jerky in one sitting, particularly if you eat it all by itself
and are famished, because jerky is concentrated and has a much smaller
volume than steak.  But a low fat content is not what makes it easy to eat;
it's the density.  (It's similar with dried fruit.  1/2 cup of raisins
reduces to 1 tablespoon of grapes, so one could conveivably eat more raisins
than grapes in a sitting, if one is very hungry and trying to fill up on a
single food.

It is not true that jerky has no fat!  Jerky will have whatever fat was
contained in the meat.  Steak reduces to 1/4 to 1/5 of its original weight,
when dehydrated.  Thus, 1 pound of ground beef will dry to about 4 ounces;
1 1/4 pounds of steak will reduce to about 4 ounces.

Check out these figures.  Laura's Lean Beef (hormone free beef sold in many
supermarkets across the US):  1 pound of 96% lean/ground round, or sirloin,
top butt, flank, or tenderloin steak = 18 grams of fat; 1 pound Laura's 92%
lean ground beef 36 grams fat.  This is considered LEAN beef.

For Piedmontese beef (a special breed of cattle, a cross breed, which is
lower in fat, calories and cholesterol when compared to conventional
supermarket beef, looks like this:  1 pound  Piedmontese ground round =  12
grams fat; 1 pound Piedmontese ground beef = 40 grams fat; 1 pound
conventional round steak = 60 grams fat; 1 pound conventional hambruger= 78
grams fat; 1 pound conventional rib eye steak = 88 grams fat.  Source USDA
Handbook #8.

Rachel Matesz