Matt Baker wrote:
> I don't know if there's some hardwired, timeclock genetics at play here, or
> whether a diet rich in saturated fats might have been a culprit.  My mother
> had high cholesterol problems and I do too.  I used to think that maybe all
> the bacon grease we used when I was growing up might have been the problem.
> Come forward in time and I  thought maybe it was the transfats (Crisco,
> margarine) that we used when I was growing up.  But I don't think my ggm
> would have had any transfats in her diet in 1911 or before.  So this takes
> me back to the saturated fat issue.  And I don't think I can blame feedlot
> meat and skewed ratios, either, though I'm not sure whether the farm folk
> might have grained their animals prior to slaughter around the turn of the
> century.    It hardly makes sense to me, though,  that my Paleo forebears
> wouldn't have been adapted to sat fat.

Theola, you sound remarkably like the folk who keep pushing
the low fat diets as a cure for heart disease.  Even if you
eat NO cholesterol, your body makes it because it is a
necessary substance.  And you know what makes it?  Insulin.
That is why heart and vascular problems are no seen to be
related to the diabetes and syndrome x diseases.  What was
the carb intake for these folk?  How is your own?  If you
have been paleo for a while, go get your own cholesterol
measured.  Reducing your carb intake should have it going
down...

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