I have just read Staffan Lindeberg's reply to Enig and Fallon's dairy
and fat discussion on the paleo symposium. I am not about to get into a
debate on that list. I will leave that to those more qualified. However,
Staffan made a point that a Dr Jefferey Segall suggests that lactose has
a strong correlation with heart disease. A while back I read a paper
from Dr John Allen titled "The thrifty Genotype" in which he says that
lactose in milk gives elevated and sustained blood glucose levels. I
would suggest that this is connected to what I was trying to say about
Bernstein's book and tight glucose control. If I interpreted Bernstein
correctly, "diabetes" complications start long before diabetes is
diagnosed. The label "Diabetes" is just some point on a continuum at
which a lack of blood sugar control reaches a threshold value.
Complications do not magically start at this value. Complications
probably contribute to reaching this value. Most people never reach this
threshold but the pre diabetic processes are still happening to a lessor
or greater extent, depending on a person's genetic makeup. Most diabetic
complications are exactly those diseases that are the so called "Western
Diseases". At the risk of being simplistic it appears to me that blood
glucose control and elimination of grains are the major steps that can
be taken to prevent these Western Diseases. Bernstein goes as far as to
say that blood glucose levels should be constrained to a tight range of
85-90mg/dl. Not even so called "normal" people have these ranges.His
results speak for themselves. Dairy, per se may, not be a problem.
Cheeses and butter may be acceptable.

If I have become blindly locked into some hypotheses, please feel free
to point me in the right direction.

Gary