>The listing of the major fat sources in an animal carcass >is a valid step to come to a total fat composition. >Figure 2 lists the composition of brain, skin,marrow, >muscle,adipose. i'm still curious as to why you lied that this figure refers to the *total* fat composition in any given animal. it has nothing to do with it. even Kirt can see that. do you lie often? well i know you do... >With the Kangaroo listing you *have* a complete carcass >analysis. What do you want more? its worth knowing about a few other animals dont you think? >You seem to defend a position that there was predominately >saturated fat to be found in paleo food items. This is ridiculous. >You stand against a large group of real scientists. >Not only Cordain, im using cordain's figures for the 3 wild beasts his team analysed. the adipose has a higher saturated fat content than conventional beef. >And you -- just claim that skin fat is "so much" and >"very saturated". Nothing more. No numbers. No usage of the >actual data found. I'm using Cordain's figures :) might as well start there. >Not just defending always the same old opinion. Deal with the >data! let's start with the SFA content of the wild beasts which Cordain has measured. higher SFA than conventional beef. >If you dissect let say an elk, a deer , a moose, a gnu, a zebra >you will probably find out, that the size of a kidney, a liver or >the skin mass of these animals will have similar percentages of >the whole carcass as in a kangaroo. wow, that's a big step. i wonder how much comparative anatomy you've done to know this. oh..you've forgotten the adipose fat!!! >The skin proportion of smaller animals will even rise compared >to big ones. i bet you must have been shocked to see even the worthless roo has 1.5kg of fat. quite a lot. how will u live this down? >With all this I can't find any connection to support your theories >of predominating saturated fats in the diet. have a look at Cordain's data. higher SFA content in the adipsoe fat than conventional beef. >Or the low PUFA percentages. Water animals have even >bigger percentages of PUFAs. nope. i never said that at all. the modern diet is definitely short of DHA/EPA. i cant see it being short of LA..since pork fat is about 8%. no problems there. Its the DHA/EPA to worry about. you are entitled to believe that man evolved in the waterless wastes of the african savannah, several million years without a ready supply of fresh water. go for it. i don't. andrew