IMO, a lot of people have objected to Cordain's views re not eating much fat/cholesterol. Some Palaeoish gurus such as Vilhjalmur Stefansson or Sally Fallon actually recommend huge amounts of (minimally-cooked) animal fats(unfortunately, Sally Fallon recommends fat-rich raw dairy as well, which is harmful, IMO, given its non-Palaeo origins). I cured my own (decades-long)blocked sinus-problem by cutting out absolutely all dairy, raw or otherwise.
As regards organ-meats, they are absolutely essential for health - in fact, ox-/beef-tongue is my favourite food, and I get sweetbreads now and again(though I don't much like the taste of the latter) . Native tribes generally prized all the organ-meats, eating such things as adrenals, kidneys, brains etc. - organ-meats contain something like 10 to 100 times as many nutrients as muscle-meats which is very good reason to eat them.
While there are plenty of studies concerning the dangers of saturated fats, IMO, they tend to focus on cooked, grainfed meats rather than cooked,grassfed ones. Also, one study pointed out a strong possibility that the dangers re cooked meats may be primarily due to the AGES(advanced glycation endproducts) produced by heat/cooking:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat
(I should add that healthy, grassfed meats, anyway, contains much less saturated fats than unhealthy, grainfed meats. So it's not so much a question of what type of fats to eat, whether PUFAs/MUFAs,SFAs, but whether you're getting them from a healthy source).
So raw saturated fat may be perfectly OK.
Re Veal:- This is usually heavily recommended against as it's one of the unhealthiest of meats:-
http://www.britishmeat.com/veal.html
Geoff "Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognised. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, and in the third it is regarded as self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer. http://www.rawpaleo.com/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/rawpaleodiet/ > Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:00:59 -0400> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Newbie Question - Organ Meats> To: [log in to unmask]> > Hi, I've been on the Paleo Diet for one month after being on the Zone Diet> for over a year. They're fairly similar diets. The main difference is that> on the Paleo Diet I've eliminated dairy and soy sources of protein and> replaced it with more meat and fish, and I've really cut back on salt. I> wasn't really overweight when I started Zone but my cholesterol and> triglycerides were bad. They cleared right up on the Zone Diet and I'm> trying the Paleo Diet to see if it will clear up my daily stuffy nose and> inflamation around some injured tendons.> > My question -> > The Paleo Diet recommends lean meat but also recommends organ meats that are> very high fat, like beef sweetbreads and tongue (see www.nutritiondata.com).> These organs from the young animal (veal) aren't too high in fat, but would> probably hard to find.> > I'm assuming there are a lot of Paleo Dieters that eat the beef sweetbreads> and tongue. Is the high fat okay? Also, all the organ meats are pretty> high in cholesterol. What is the answer about that?> > Regards,> > Larry Magee>
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