Could you please clarify what is PUFA?

something-something-fatty-acids maybe?

And could someone please point me to Harris' site?

TIA -

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On Apr 1, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> ----- "Geoffrey Purcell" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> I've read Kurt Harris' site and it is pretty misleading, IMO. For  
>> one thing, legalistically speaking, he shouldn't even be using the  
>> word "paleo", since his advice isn't really palaeo at all, just  
>> more of the usual cooked,low-carb dogma a la Atkins. I seem to  
>> recall that his view was that if a person experienced no immediate  
>> allergic reaction to dairy , that they should go for it. He forgot  
>> to mention certain statistics such as that most of the world are  
>> lactose-intolerant to varying degrees; in other words, there are  
>> always going to be some people who may not immediately incur  
>> clearly observable problems from dairy/butter in the short-term,  
>> but who eventually get health-problems years later, as a result of  
>> consuming it.
>
> I disagree. I think his site is one of the best on the internet,  
> precisely because he is at pains to support his views with evidence,  
> and to admit when the evidence is inconclusive. He also explains his  
> conception of "paleo" at length, which he clearly states is not a  
> "paleo re-enactment" approach. He admits that he is still on the  
> fence about dairy, in general. See this blog entry on that. He is  
> preparing a blog entry on butter now, so perhaps you should wait and  
> see what he has to say before dismissing it as rehashed Atkins.
>
> The term "paleo" as applied to diet is, in fact, undefined. It can  
> be, and is, used to mean any of the following:
>
> 1. Eat only what we know actual paleolithic people ate, in roughly  
> the manner and proportions that they ate it. (re-enactment)
> 2. Eat only what we know actual paleolithic people could have eaten,  
> even if we don't know whether they, in fact, did. (Neanderthin)
> 3. Eat only what paleolithic people could have eaten before they  
> started cooking, whenever that was, and don't cook it. (raw paleo)
> 4. Eat only foods that contain the kinds of nutrients that  
> paleolithic people had access to, in roughly the amounts they ate  
> them. (Cordain paleo)
> 5. Avoid the neolithic foods for which there is convincing evidence  
> for a causal role in disease.
>
> No one camp has exclusive rights to the word "paleo." Harris's  
> approach is the last one listed above.
>
> Note that in his view, the three most dangerous neolithic foodstuffs  
> are fructose, PUFA, and grains, especially wheat, in no particular  
> order. He is at pains to point out that he does not think that a  
> particular carbohydrate level or macronutrient ratio is  
> indispensable. His position is that it is fructose, PUFA, and grains  
> that break metabolisms (mainly via liver damage), and, once broken,  
> an inability to handle significant amounts of carbohydrate in  
> general is a result. This is not the Atkins view.
>
> Harris can be be rough, but personally I appreciate that. He has  
> little patience for dogmas, but when actual evidence and arguments  
> are presented--and not merely alluded to--he engages it.
>
> Much as I enjoy Harris's site, I think I enjoy Peter's Hyperlipid  
> site even more. I like Peter's attitude and also his relentless  
> analytical energy.
>
> Todd Moody