Carl Lempke's Lies.

nick said:

Low cholesterol means a much higher risk of cancer. Read Thomas Moore's "Heart Failure" to get the
whole story. Also, "The Cholesterol Conspiracy"

The low cholesterol in cancer patients is a result of the cancer due to eating disorders making them
eat much less, that is, most of the food is released undigested due to diarrhoea. and the
correlation is only valid when cholesterol goes below 2.5. a normal value of 3.5-4.5 range is not
correlated with any cancers.

and, a certain fraction of PUFa is vital to health. Before you tell others to make them diseased
from PUFa deficiency and lack of iron, you should rather try that on yourself. But, I warn you, you
will first get very sleepy when lack of iron gives you a hb value below 11. and later you will get
many sores in skin which may be cured by application of lard.

But, by the way, I doubt seriously you will be able to make a diet for yourself completely devoid in
iron and PUFa's in the US. Maybe if you move to India and live together with most poor people
feeding completely on roots rich in linamarins and other CN-glycosides, you may perhaps get in the
state wanted. But, it is your own decision to get seriously ill by malnutrition.

Alf posted:

"The low cholesterol in cancer patients is a result of the cancer due to eating disorders making
them eat much less, that is, most of the food is released undigested due to diarrhoea... you will
first get very sleepy when lack of iron gives you a hb value below
11... But, by the way, I doubt seriously you will be able to make a diet for yourself completely
devoid in iron and PUFa's in the US."

It's great that you're such an expert, Alf, that you don't even need to quote any studies - too be
we can't all be nutritional gods, such as yourself. For those of you normal folk, who are, however,
independent thinkers, go to www.pubmed.com and look up Parasassi, for example, and you will learn
how cholesterol (if it has not been oxidized) protects cells from free radical damage, which is the
fundamental "cause" of "chronic disease." So there's more to it than Alf is noting here, and again,
you can read Thomas Moore's book or do your own research. As far as the sores that come from
"essential fatty acid deficiency," it was only when I cut out almost all PUFAs that a couple of skin
problems I had cleared up! And I tried GLA, fish oil, flax oil, combination oils, and none worked.
"Anemia" is just like "irritable bowel syndrome," "chronic fatigue syndrome," or "GERD," as
examples. They are just labels placed on a group of symptoms so that doctors can prescribe a drug
that will enrich pharaceutical companies and get you out of their offices so that they can treat as
many patients as possible in a given period of time.

Alf is right in that it is difficult in the West to be iron deficient, but that just furthers my
point that iron is so dangerous (and the studies regarding iron, as "doe" in this newsgroup often
posts, are clear and incontrovertible) - too many people have iron overload, not deficiency. So
what is your point about iron, Alf? Do you know a lot of sleepy people in third world countries,
and seek to discover a "cure" for them? However, regarding PUFAs - it is not essential to avoid
them entirely, but to minimize consumption to the point where Mead acid will replace the highly
unstable PUFA called arachidonic acid. If you were consuming a "traditional Mediterranean diet,"
one in which your fat primarily came from goat or cow dairy, olives and olive oil, and small
amounts of meat (free-range, we would say today), your body would have the Mead acid rather than
arachidonic acid performing the crucial role in inflammatory situations. It gets technical,
involving especially LtB4, but the idea that you should eat a "traditional Mediterranean diet," yet
avoid saturated fatty acids is beyond ludicrous. Only people living right on the coasts and near
rivers would (possibly) have eaten fairly large quantities of fish (and many of these would be low
in fat anyway) - and with no modern PUFA oils, where would they have gotten their PUFAs from. Alf
clearly has not studied anthropology, as I have, because in basic textbooks he would have learned
that early humans used palm and coconut products as dietary staples, both very high in saturated
fatty acids (coconut is about 92% saturated). The only traditional high PUFA diet was the Eskimo,
and what a surprise - those who ate lots of fish usually died before age 40. When tested against
normal Danish people (who mostly ate a lot more fish than Americans do, for example), the bleeding
times for Eskimos was much higher, which is why so many died of minor blunt force traumas (internal
bleeding). Yes Alf, I have been able to avoid most PUFAs. If not, tell me what I need to eliminate.
My main sources of fat are unrefined coconut oil, butter, dark chocolate (73% cocoa mass), raw goat
cheese, whey powder, and olives (only a couple a day). Am I "essential fatty acid deficient?" If
so, I'm feeling better than ever, about 40 years old and thin as a rail, with no "chronic
diseases," unlike my relatives and friends. My brother, several years younger, on a "junk food
diet," has had his gallbladder removed and has various problems - irritable bowel, GERD, and needs
to take (he thinks) SSRIs. He gets plenty of PUFAs in his diet. You'd probably say he needs more
omega 3 PUFAs, but they are 5 times more susceptible to free radical degradation, though it is true
that they counteract each other in certain ways - probably the body's way of dealing with
substances that are so toxic. That is the only reason omega 3s "look good" in some studies, though
when there is a long -term follow-up, which is rare, the omega 3 people often are found to have
more problems than the controls - what a surprise!

You can research "essential fatty acid deficiency" and you'll discover how many conditions are
"cured" by avoiding PUFAs. Did you know that cartilidge have high levels of the Mead acid, but that
as you get older, PUFAs take over, and arthritis eventually results? No, of course not. Guys like
Alf think they know everything because they read something in a textbook. I know some of the people
who wrote such textbooks, and some of them I would not trust with the health of the wild rabbits in
my backyard.