On Apr 3, 2010, at 6:22 AM, Geoffrey Purcell wrote:

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> I suppose part of the reason for my reaction, of course, is that I did rather badly, healthwise, on many of the foods he recommends(eg:- butter, coconut oil etc.) Lowering fructose-rich fruit-intake and going zero-carb led to a drastic drop in health as well

I found the same about fruit - I do much better with about 100g of carb from fruits or root vegetables in my diet.  A low-carb diet messes up my appetite (the opposite of what it is "supposed" to do - I eat more) and depresses my thyroid.

> , and I find I actually do better if I include some pufa-rich seafood in my diet.  Incidentally, I doubt that sharp reductions in PUFAs constitutes "palaeo". After all, the Inuit on traditional diets were basically following a standard palaeo-diet(ie no dairy/grains/legumes), yet were eating rather high amounts of PUFAs.

But...The Inuit diet is simply not something we can emulate anyway.  We don't have access to seal/whale blubber, organs from marine animals, etc, and the Inuit ate all that stuff.  And, of course, wild caribou seasonally, I expect, with all of it's parts.  I generally find that most zero-carb types eat exclusively muscle and attached fat from cattle and claim the Inuit did fine on a nearly zero carb diet.  

If you follow Cordain's book strictly, you'd be cooking extremely low-fat meats (if you can't find grass-fed) and adding fat with Canola oil. You see plenty of Paleo types consuming flax and canola oils, something is actually a bad idea for me.

>  That said, Dr Harris is admittedly  aiming at people who eat modern  processed foods with lots of heated veggie-oils and the like, so reducing those PUFAs makes sense.

I have cut most nuts, seeds and their oils because of the PUFAs.  I do eat low PUFA stuff like macadamias and avocados.  I do eat PUFA-containing meats like chicken, pork and seafood.  Farmed seafood is loaded with Omega-6 - all the additional fat is Omega-6, and there's plenty of that.

-Nicole
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