Hello Groupmembers! Being interested in food & health science (and cooking, for that sake) I stumbled over Your list only two days ago. I have since then been wading in information, jumping between pages, trying to "sort it somewhat out". Although I've just been reading for two days, it has already generated a zillion of thoughts, and quite a bit confusion, aha:s and many "but..." and so on... As I thought about what to write about in my introduction, the first idea was to enumerate some those things that I thought a different diet could do for me. After some rethinking, I decided to wait a couple of weeks, reading more posts, and then come up with some questions (or find out that it is very actually quite simple and apparent, or that it's all a big fuss) Finally, I decided to post right now, to tell You how my mind is spinning like never before confronted with all this information & different ideas, turning very much of my world upside down. I think I might have found a very interesting place, although it has started a virtual battle of competing thoughts in my brain. And I will definitely stay here for a wile, now if I could get some JOB done instead surfing... :-) How did all You stumble on this things? ...And some more information about me; I am a 25 years old male, living in the south of Sweden. I consider me self being a long distance runner, not that I run very long distances, but anyway (hmm..) I have a long time lived after the principle to "eat lots of bread and pasta and potatoes", and supplement with meat and fish. My first contact with the "high- protein" hypothesis/thory was a thread about the "Zone Diet" on the UltaMarathonMaillinglist, I was subscribed to. It also made me think a lot, but I eventually pushed the thoughts aside... Ok. so here I am, I'll save my "newbe" questions for a while I think! Regards, Jonas Amoson, Vaxjo, Sweden [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]