It's that if you get enough fat, you'll feel satisfied and won't eat so much 
in the first place. Secondly, if the insulin level is not disturbed by 
refined carbohydrates, your body will burn fat for fuel instead of storing 
it.

To add on a bit, he points out that the sucrose in sugar goes into the blood 
stream where it raises insulin level but is burned. The other component of 
sugar, fructose, gets stored into the liver where it eventually gets 
released as triglycerides and stored in the fat tissues. Even that would be 
OK but the elevated insulin levels keeps that stored fat from being released 
to be burned off, thus you gain weight and remain hungry.

The book's most fascinating part is how lousy the science on diet has been 
and on how dominated it has been by a few figures. They crucified anyone who 
did not adhere to the high cholesterol-high fat = heart disease dogma, cut 
off their funding, did not accept their research for journals, etc. All 
along, related fields were producing research showing that the Paleo 
approach is correct: the post-agricultural foods are highly problematic and 
he recounts experiments like that with two artic explorers who had claimed 
they had subsisted entirely on meat, like the Eskimos and other Europeans in 
the area. So they were hospitalized for 13 weeks to control their diet, put 
entirely on meat, then released to eat only meat. They were tested once a 
week to make sure they weren't eating anything else and followed for one 
year. At the end of this one year, 13 week experiement, they were, if 
anything, in better shape than when they started the experiment.
And on and on....
Pat Barrett
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mark wilson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: Good Calories Bad Calories


> --- Pat Barrett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Having just finished the book, I am interested in
>> but I'm not sure I
>> understand the question: are you asking if this is
>> an accurate quote from
>> some post or are you asking if it is accurate that
>> the author, Gary Taubes....
>
> Both I guess...  This claim came from an email sent
> out by an individual talking about the book.  If your
> take on the book is correct, it sounds like Taubes is
> arguing that unlimited fat intake will not increase
> body weight. Is that correct?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> 
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