The tom/doe vs. markdtoad debate.

"monty" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I've told Tom/doe that iron is a secondary issue, and
since then he seems

to

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be posting more about oxidative stress. Oxidative stress
that can be prevented involves too much unsaturated fatty
acids and oxidized

cholesterol

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in the diet, along with too little antioxidants, but iron
overload is a problem too. There was a recent study, I
think Finnish (you can find it

on

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www.pubmed.com), which concluded that oxidized cholesterol
was only a problem in people who were overloaded with
iron. However, if you ate a

lot

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of antioxidants and saturated fatty acids (such as coconut
oil) and

avoided

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unsaturated fatty acids (since they are in most foods that
have some fat content, one might also use the overload
term and say unsaturated fatty

acid

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overload) I don't think the iron would be nearly as much
of a problem, assuming that you've got the other essential
minerals (copper, selenium, magnesium, in particular).
From what I understand, the Finnish diet is

not

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low in unsaturated fatty acids, so that's probaby why the
iron overload

had

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such an effect on the people in the study.

I think you may be missing one vital point here - the term
"debate" doesn't come into it.

Read all of what each of the two have posted, and then ask
yourself which of the two is demonstrably insane ;o)

MB