On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:06 pm, Mike Weis wrote:

> I don't remember where I read this, but the argument goes something
> like
> this:
>  On a diet of mostly meat and fat, fiber is completely unecessary
> in the
> human diet, as our digestive systems are 100% capable of digesting
> even raw,
> unchewed meat and fat.
>  Maybe I saw this here on the list. I don't really worry too much
> about
> fiber, to be honest, because I notice that the less of it I eat,
> the more
> "regular" I am. It's when I start eating all those fancy foods that my
> insides get all weird.
>  Mike W.
>


I will agree with this.  I used to get occasional bouts of
constipation which would last several days- often when I was eating a
lot of wholemeal bread.  The fibre is grains isn't fibre at all- to
use the now old-fashioned term, it's roughage.  Like digesting
sandpaper and iron filings.  These days, I can eat virtually all meat
with no trouble at all.

Ashley