I don't know about dietary fat, but I got a new perspective on bodyfat 
especially depot fat from Ari Hofmekler.

I now think that bodyfat is a protective mechanism. It is the way the 
body deals with intake of too many of the wrong foods. Fat increases 
insulin resistance, stores hormones and various fat-soluble chemicals, 
and otherwise in many ways serves to keep the organism from getting 
really sick or dying from the wrong foods.

I've started to see how more and more "symptoms" are really the body's 
protective mechanisms. Take away the causes and the symptoms reverse or 
disappear.

--Richard

Ashley Moran wrote:

> On Feb 04, 2006, at 12:45 pm, Everyone @ As If Productions wrote:
> 
>> They think "It's BAD for me but it feels good," so they try to  limit 
>> their intake to as low a number as they can live with while  still 
>> mooing happily in their pens.
> 
> 
> Haha - I will have to remember that one.  It's a good description  
> though.  People like diets that don't rock the boat.  I've heard "Oh  
> this is a good diet - it's really balanced.  You eat one thirds each  of 
> protein carbs and fat".  I wonder if their idea of a nice brew is  one 
> third tea, one third milk, and one third sugar.
> 
> 
>> In fact, thanks to TV commercials claiming sugar-water (like  
>> Gatorade) and candy bars (like Snickers) are "good sources of quick  
>> energy," I'd wager that the average "civilized" person believes  sugar 
>> is the lesser of two evils compared to fat.
> 
> 
> Actually I was in the other office at work and I saw a girl eating  
> "energy tablets".  I asked her what was in them, and said it was  
> probably all sugar.  She looked really shocked and said "they better  
> not be!"  The name (Dextro-aid or something) should have been the  
> giveaway.  And yes, they were 82% sugar (dextrose funnily enough).   Not 
> that she stopped eating them of course.  But at least she knows.
> 
> 
>> I think a reframing is in order.  The word "fat" has too many  
>> meanings.  We should start calling them "Lipid Fuels".  Ask your  mum: 
>> "Have you had your lipid fuels today?"
> 
> 
> I can just see the reaction: "so do you think I should replace all  the 
> fat in my diet with lipids?"
>