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> >Am I clearing it up or muddying it up?<g>
> 
Yes, I figured it was more or less along those lines.  You really do have 
to get back to the center for the ususal rules to apply.   I know this all 
too well.   During the years I was Mr. Commuter daily, I fell into the bad 
habit of picking up  a biscuit on the way into town rather than eating my own 
food.  The biscuits were made with shortening.  Just that one biscuit two or 
three times a week was wrecking my digestion.  The turning point came when I 
ate one of the doughnuts someone was always leaving in the coffee room, 
commercial doughnuts which are made of shortening and a few insignificant 
amounts of other ingredients.  I became violently puking ill, identified the 
culprit, and toed the line from then on out eating only whole wheat homestead 
biscuits made with lard and butter.  All the digestive problems cleared up in 
a few weeks and did not  return ......

..... until recently.  We had been using coconut oil for deep frying due to 
wanting to conserve the good lard for other things.  Then during the run up 
in fuel prices, they started making diesel out of every bit of nutritional 
fat on the planet and the price of a quart of coconut oil shot up from $3.35 
to over $8.  Forget that.   So we switched to soybean oil in the fryer.  
Nothing much wrong with soybean oil in extreme moderation, but it is not 
stable when heated.  It tends to polymerize and some say the heating in the 
metal 
vessel causes some hydrogenation.  Even cutting back on deep fried foods 
quite a bit, it began getting to me.

Since coconut oil is now back down to an affordable price, we've ditched 
the soybean oil in favor of it once again.  The only real solution is more 
pigs and more lard.

Less catfish is not an option.


James