Robin > Who's right?  [about fat consumption]

Cordain is clearly wrong.  Clearly.  He may be showing either normal  
human error, or what is more probable, he is cowtowing to the NIH or  
other funding agencies.

Listen, I am reading what is in my mind the most revolutionary book on  
the subject I've come across (and, yes, that includes Taubes  
paradigm-shifting tome).  As _Neanderthin_ rocked my world when I was  
given a copy by a friend in 1999, _The Art and Science of Low  
Carbohydrate Living_ is rocking my world today.  PICK UP A COPY TODAY  
AND DEVOUR IT.  It puts to bed forever any concerns about saturated  
fat but, more than that, it does two things well:  1) It synthesizes  
the science in a way that I've never seen in one source; and 2) it  
really has a host of gems that are new to me.

Just one small example of one gem.  Do you experience fatigue when low  
carbing, lack of energy?  The answer is salt.  Salt.  I've experienced  
zero fatigue or headache on the highly restrictive low carb  
experiement I began on Tuesday morning.  (I'm doing very well on that,  
by the way.  More details later).

I would like to say that I've only had one objection to the entire  
book, and as a Christian I may just be oversensitive to a subject so  
near and dear to my heart.  But there is a small section that seems  
awfully harsh towards Christianity, a section that focuses on the  
prase "give us this day our daily bread."  I can understand the effort  
to overcome cultural hurdles, but to me it's really odd that it's in  
there at all.

But 99% of this book is simply revolutionary.  Read it.

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Science-Low-Carbohydrate-Living/dp/0983490708

Jim