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Adrienne Smith wrote:
>Eating LEAN meat does not help me reach satiety -- fatty meat does. What's
>the point in eating lower calorie lean meat if I need twice as much to feel
>full? The only grass-fed meat I've tried that IS satiating is the Australian
>lamb I buy and that is because it still contains quite a bit of fat. The
>grass-fed beef I buy is tasty, but NOT satiating because it is so very lean
>-- same goes for ostrich. I need to add olive oil or goose fat to them. But
>maybe that's just my own quirk. Is the taste for fat learned or natural???
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I don't know the answer. I agree with you that fatty meat tastes
better. That is why, unlike you, I can eat more of it. I can devoir 14
ounces of fatty prime rib at Outback Steakhouse without pausing for air.
I don't think I could eat 14 ounces of lean flank steak.
Here's a theory -- pure conjecture, in fact: Sweets and fatty meats
taste very good, in order to motivate us to go out of our way to get
them. That motivation is adaptive *in an environment where both are
relatively scarce*. Perhaps the same applies to salt. Our enjoyment of
these flavors may simply reflect that in the paleo environment they were
as scarce -- and as valuable -- as diamonds. I wish I knew.
Todd Moody
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