On Feb 05, 2006, at 6:42 pm, Richard Geller wrote:

> 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.

Perhaps.  Ray Audette claimed that obesity is an auto-immune disorder  
in Neanderthin.  And I once knew a woman who said that eating wheat  
made her weight balloon rapidly.  I'm sure there are plenty more  
people like her.  But I'm sure there are plenty of overweight people  
who would still be fat if they switched their carbs from wheat to  
rice, or some other switch where the carbohydrate source was  
different but the effect on insulin is the same.


> 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.


Have you read Not All In The Mind by Richard Mackarness?  It's one of  
the best books I've read and explains how diseases occur when the  
body's ability to cope with stress is overwhelmed.  He was (is?) a  
big fan of paleo.  His ideas are so straight-forward and his records  
of his treatments were so meticulous that I think it is nothing short  
of scandal that his work was ignored by the larger medical  
community.  (But sadly that is exactly what I would expect.)

Ashley