[lbo-talk] High fat diet makes you stupid and lazy

[Miles Jackson]

Shane Mage wrote:
>
> On Aug 13, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Bill O'Connor wrote:
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>> Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> writes:
>>
>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090812/sc_livescience/highfatdietmaymakeyoustupidandlazy 
>>>
>>>
>
>>> "It's nothing short of a high-fat hangover," said Dr. Gerald 
>>> Weissmann, editor-in-chief of journal. "A long weekend spent eating 
>>> hotdogs, French fries, and pizza in Orlando might be a great treat 
>>> for our taste buds, but they might send our muscles and brains out 
>>> to lunch."
>>>
>>> It may explain a thing or two about the US :)
>>
>> What's the second thing?  ;)
>
>
> Processed Carbohydrates.
>
> The Inuit, with a very-high-fat, very-low-carb, diet used to do very 
> well in a severe environment that tolerated neither indolence nor 
> stupidity.
>
> Shane Mage 

Yes.  There are many examples of societies that eat way more fat than 
people in the U. S. do and have much lower rates of obesity.

Miles