Paleolithic Diets and Cholesterol
I initially
fell into the trap of being overly influenced
by the conventional wisdom about animal fats and
cholesterol. Like most of us, I'd been thoroughly
indoctrinated about the alleged dangers, and in
the 1970s and 1980s I read a lot of literature
about "primitive" and "Paleolithic"
diets, which maintained that such diets, while
high in protein, were low in fat. I bought into
this idea, and advocated the use of moderate amounts
of meat and raw dairy foods along with large amounts
of vegetables, fish, and some fruit and whole
grains.
That is a diet
that many people do very well with for some time,
and this was true for me. But as I described above,
the belief that the same diet that you may have
thrived on for a number of years will always be
right for you is often fallacious. It's quite
natural to make this error; we all become attached
to the things we like, to our routines. Change
is difficult.
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