Guest guest Posted January 18, 2002 Report Share Posted January 18, 2002 He only has a small table of specifcs/PUFA for illustrative purposes, but here it is: DOMESTIC MEAT PUFA % of Total FA Beef.............2 Pork............10 Lamb.............3 Veal.............4 Chicken.........17 WILD GAME Cape Buffalo....30 Eland...........35 Hartebeest......32 Giraffe.........39 Kangaroo........36 Warthog.........43 Caribou.........22 Grouse..........60 Very interesting because they all have much higher levels of PUFA than grain fed farm raised animals which I thought would have been reversed. He does say that a survey of 43 species on 3 continents reveals a 4.3% fat percentage which validates what you have below. He says that they would get 70g of fat a day, 30g from animals, 40g from vegetables (presumably including nuts/seeds). He also says that their fat consumption ratios are: P:M:S = 7:8:5 P:S = 7:5 U:S = 3:1 Total fat as % of calories: 20-25% --Michael Gettingwell, " Suze Fisher " <cfisher@b...> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > >>>The _Paleolithic Prescription_ by S. Body Eaton says that > polyunsaturated fat accounts for ~32% of total fat from wild game. > ****Can you elaborate on this a little...? What species exactly is Eaton > referring to? Does Eaton give a breakdown of the different fatty acids, > their amounts and ratios in various species? > Also, I think what Greg is talking about is shear AMOUNTS of PUFAs in the > diet, not just ratios. Wild game such as deer, elk and moose have about 1-5% > (!!!) body fat. So, if that fat is approx. 1/3 PUFA, then Paleo consumers > were eating 1/3 of 3% (for example) animal-based PUFA. Which is about 1% > animal-based PUFA in the diet. Compare that to modern battery- raised chicken > at approx. 20-25% TOTAL fat, and of that, 19-25% (or thereabouts) LA! That's > approx. 20% of 20% of a widely consumed meat in America. That comes out to > approx. 4% Linoleic Acid. 4 TIMES the Paleo amount of animal-based PUFAs, > and all omega 6, as well. > > While these numbers are all approximations (from various sources), it's > clear that modern diets based on factory farmed animal flesh and vegetable, > nut and seed oils far exceeds the total *amount* of PUFAs our ancestors > consumed. Of course, Paleolithic peoples ate *whole* plants, nuts and seeds, > certainly not the highly processed and concentrated amounts that we > post-paleos are eating in polyunsaturated *oils*! > > So we eat more n-3 PUFAs to *balance out* diets that are already imbalanced > with too many n-6 fatty acids, and before we know it, we are consuming a lot > of PUFAs in an effort to achieve *balance* with little thought given to > *amounts*. So what's the problem with high amounts of PUFAs? As Greg's > already posted, heart disease is one of the results of such a diet. Mary > Enig documents the parallel rise in PUFA consumption and heart disease in > " Know Your Fats, " as well. Of course, trans fats are part of the picture, > but the oxidative vulnerability of PUFAs, to me, is a very real concern. > Perhaps if we ate more balanced diets in the first place, we wouldn't have > to load up on omega 3 oils to balance out a diet high in omega 6s, creating > a heavy PUFA burden on our body's antioxidant stores? > > > > Suze Fisher > Web Design & Development > http://www.suscom-maine.net/~cfisher/ > cfisher@b... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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