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[sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net>]

EarthNSky wrote:
> Thank you so much for this Wendy.  I am one of those people who 
> regularly has triglycerides in excess of 700.  
I'm not usually much budged by figures but that one is high...
> ..High triglycerides- you must eat a 
> lot of fatty food (I don't)...
Oh, no, no.  Have you read the Weston Price stuff?  Makes more sense to 
me. 

None of my blood fats have ever registered high, and I've always had a 
fairly highfat diet, having been a midwesterner and since getting 
majority of protein from whole milk (raw) and cheeses, definitely made 
from whole milk if not cream.  Total chol is currently at 173 with trigs 
at 90.......

There is more and more trend toward being suspicious of the past 50 
years' worth of information re "fat is bad for you"...just as moderation 
is a good thing in most arenas, so it would appear to be with fats...

My grandmother ate a highfat, farm-produced diet all her life, and 
tasted everything she ever cooked, ate several eggs/day, always cleaned 
up any fat left at the table, always fished the chicken fat off the jars 
of canned chicken for a snack (gag), every morning fried her eggs (or 
directed them to be fried, in her later years) in a quarter cup or so of 
lard, and when the eggs were finished, fried her bread in the remaining 
lard.  More times than not she'd take a piece of soft bread and wipe the 
skillet out with it, eat that, and get up to do dishes.  Her main 
bedtime snack all her life was cracklin's.  From the time she was in her 
early sixties she was regularly threatened by a variety of doctors about 
the dangers of such a diet, and regularly ignored the threats.  She died 
at 104, and I might add that she was as mean the day she died as she had 
been for the last many years....

So the answers are definitely not all in place, despite what some would 
have us believe.

SJ