thestudbeast

Yes some interesting points Scott, it's amazing how our countries with such poor health try to put the blame on saturated fat. As our diets have changed to vegtable fats and refined carbs so our health has plumeted to all time lows. Yet the top 4 countries in the health stakes all eat diets rich in saturated fat.

If you look at the Insulin index you clearly see that products high in saturated fat like beef can not be compared to refined carbs in terms of insulin release and it is the combo like Hack's mentioned of saturated fat and refined carbs that give the large sustained release of insulin. This has been proven in practice by the anabolic diet, Vince Gironda's teachings, the plaeo diet etc etc.

I think the most conclusive exidence of wether AA should be in our diets will be to look at what our ansesters (sp) ate like PB has hinted at. The problem is knowing how much AA would have been in wild meat. Remember that organ meat was given priority in hunter gatherer times, in fact when a pack of wolves or lions catch a prey the first thing they go for is the liver and organ meats. Eggs again would have been eaten along with red meat, so the sources would have been there. If AA is present in reasonable quantities in wild animals livers it will no doubt turn out all the boffins have got it wrong again!