Free The Animal

In this Part IV of the series (Part I; Part II; Part III), I have decided to do go about this in a different way than I’d indicated before. I covered the Paleo Principle in Part II, but more in terms of our having evolved to eat meat and not with a lot of specifics [...]

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As many of you know, my own HDL runs in the 130s, at least last I checked some months ago. How? Lots of fat — particularly saturated animal and coconut fat — in my diet.
Then, "John," whose issues with cholesterol I profiled here emailed a few days back to let me know that life’s not [...]

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"Die wahrheit triumphiert nie, ihre gegner sterben nur aus." — Max Planck
(Truth never triumphs, its opponents just die out.)
In Part II of this series I wrote that this installment would be about the "best research" those supporting the saturated fat-cholesterol-heart disease link or "causal chain" might use (here’s Part I). In the process of doing [...]

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In Part I of this series I introduced you to Professor Rod Jackson, who has quite a strong view of the dangers of saturated fat from animal sources in the human diet. This series of posts is intended to examine his claims and, yes, ultimately call them into serious question if not discredit.
In this installment [...]

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The other day I got an email from David Brown, proprietor over at Nutrition Education Project alerting me to an exchange he and Jimmy Moore had with a professor of epidemiology in New Zealand. Now, the first thing you need to know is that David, unlike me, is a meticulously nice guy and he employs that graciousness [...]

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