Dieting? Don't Give Up Protein

The usual needle of truth in a haystack of lies. High quality protein
is very important, and boiled eggs and whole milk, unpasteurized dairy
is usually fine (stay away from additives - carrageenana, locust bean,
guar, carob, etc.), but vegetable soures of protein are usually
difficult to digest and of poor quality. The stuff about "saturated
fat" is like vomit - it is regurgitated and very unpleasant. Ask
Asians who eat tons of the most saturated fat food of all time why they
live so long and have very little "chronic disease,
even though they have iron levels.

What you are reading in that article is something that doesn't have a
name, but came from a nutrition textbook. In biology, various claims
are connected to a theory, such as the theory of evolution (natural
selection, genetics, etc.). Denham Harman put forth a free radical
theory of aging in the 1970s, and at this point, it is THE theory. All
other ideas are subsumed within the free radical theory, such as "the
homocysteine revolution," for example. Saturated fatty acids do not
degrade the way unsaturated acids often do in the body, especially in
the context of common Western diets. Thus, fresh coconut oil is one of
the healthiest things you can eat, while the highly unsaturated oil
that are sold in a refined form are the most unhealthy (vegetable,
corn, soy, canola, safflower, sunflower, flax, fish, etc.). There are
plenty of old studies were animals were fed such oils and died much
younger than was expected, often of cancer. The "studies" of today are
based on flawed or incorrect assumptions. For example, many foods are
called "heart healthy" because they lower cholesterol, yet they oxidize
cholesterol too, and it is now known that only oxidized cholesterol is
dangerous. All the old claims about "saturated fat" "raising
cholesterol" is irrelevant. If a food tenjds to oxidize cholesterol,
you should stay away from it, period. If a food raises cholesterol a
bit but does not oxidize it (like fresh coconut oil) it is fine, and
may be very healthy.

I have challanged many on this newsgroup to put up money to do an
animals experiment that would be directly on point, just like the older
experiments were, but so far, nobody will even explain why they won't
take me up on my offer.