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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 1490008" data-attributes="member: 5328">You may be right about sweets. But hunting cultures (such as the Esquimaux) and pastoral cultures (such as the Masai and the Mongols) had a much larger proportion of meat in their diets than industrial people do. (They also had mmuch more active lives, but that is another issue.)People posting to this thread in general ought to be aware that the theories of diet that informed the famous USDA Food Pyramid are controversial. The fact that conventional diet advice is shouted very loud does not mean that it is right. There is a contrary view that a diet high in carbohydrate is responsible for the modern plague of obesity, high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, stroke, coronary occlusion, and type II diabetes, that saturated fat is harmless, and that eating meat is good for you.I, for one, have been convinced by the argument and evidence, and switched from a diet high in complex carbohydrate to one high in meat, eggs, and full-fat dairy products. As a result I have lost eighty pounds, my blood pressure and LDL ('bad cholesterol') have fallen into healthy ranges, and the symptoms that indicated that I had fatty change in my liver and was developing insulin resistance have all cleared up.Regards,Agback</blockquote>