PROTEIN * FAT MIXTURE

Just one comment on the exchange of views concerning fat and proteins
doses, between Loren Cordain and Todd Moody in the sole message of
Paleodiet Digest of August 29th :

There is one little detail of tremendous importance which is missing.
It's not just the fat "per se" that is important, or the protein "per
se".

There is a kind of synergy between dose effects from proteins and fat,
AND relative proportions between fat and proteins.  Indeed, fat and
protein do form a "mixture"; a two-component mixture!

Very few people have realized and are measuring this fact.  First
insights came from Plant Physiology and Nutrition in the 1950's at the
French-speaking Free University of Brussels (Belgium).  (Well yes, plants
obey to a number of basic nutrition principles too.  The difference with
us, is that their food is called "fertilizers" and "sun energy").  Prof.
Homes and Van Schoor have published their major results in French in the
early 1960's.  Their books are out of print.

Similarly to the genetic results of Mendel, these results have been
buried and forgotten.  Now, some 30 years later, they are reapearing with
more mathemathics to support them, in English this time.  The ones not
too averse to statistics and maths may enjoy cross-fertilising their work
with this master-piece :


EXPERIMENTS WITH MIXTURES
Designs, Models and the Analysis of Mixture Data
John A. Cornell (Univ. of Florida)
Wiley Interscience Publication - 1990
ISBN 0-471-52221-X

It's a bit more rough to digest than Homes and Van Schoor's books, but
how valuable it is to pay attention to the combination between dose
effect and relative proportions between the doses.  Furthermore, today's
relevant softwares can do most of the work for you.

Best wishes for many results,

Luc
--
Luc De Bry, Ph.D., Head of Research Department
GENERAL BISCUITS BELGIE
De Beukelaer-Pareinlaan 1
B-2200  Herentals  -  Belgium

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