Tue, Jun-10-14, 21:18
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Posts: 6,140
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Plan: Mostly Fung/IDM
Stats: 165/138.4/135
BF:???/better/???
Progress: 89%
Location: Washington state
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Originally Posted by teaser
With the Masai paper--I'd call quoting a direct observation--low cholesterol with high fat intake--and using a paper that has an alternate explanation as to why this is so, but not actually going into that explanation a grey area, rather than outright misuse. Does anybody know if the idea of a special adaptation of the Masai to the high-milk diet actually panned out?
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I remember reading somewhere (and someone in the 12 pages of comments to "Seth"'s review attributes it to Taubes GCBC) that when the Masai move to the city and begin eating a more "civilized" diet they have the same sorts of chronic diseases (AKA diseases of civilization) as we do.
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Originally Posted by teaser
This always makes me wonder if difficulties tolerating lactose are not just a problem of malabsorption, but of the gut bacteria--with the right gut bacteria, lactose fermentation in the gut might be beneficial, rather than detrimental.
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Interesting theory. Perhaps all malabsorption can be attributed to gut bacteria? I don't know….
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