Coconut is mostly saturated fat

fun fact - 100% chocolate contains more saturated fat than lard ...

My father was a trained biologist that actualy studied parisites in shell fish; there are numbers of differnt ameombas and such that can live symbioticaly with other life forms without causing any harm. My father thought I was crazy for eatting raw clams and oysters, but as you will learn here, raw foods even if they contain a few ameobas are generaly without any harmfull effects. The food poisoning issues with shell fish are usualy linked to cooked foods.Every now and then someone here will get a reaction to raw shellfish, but it isn't serious and resolves after a couple of days of diarrhea. Once your digestive system becomes fully adapted to raw paleo then you can eat about anything without worry.

i'm not afraid of bacteria and general parasites like amoebas and stuff.  i am only afraid of parasites that are specifically evolved to live in flesh.  i don't want no worms eating my organs for breakfast.  i trust my immune system to sort out bacteria and crap like that.

Yes it is.

how so ?

On a personal note, I have tried flax oil and even ate some soaked chia seeds, and had terrible experiences with decline in health and mental function. (Chia and flax are not fit for human consumption, based on my own experience) Consider yourself warned, if you are one of the poor fools who still believe otherwise.

seeds are packed with enzyme inhibitors specifically to prevent getting digested so they can pass through your digestive system and plant themselves in the soil intact.  this is why at the very least you have to soak and blend them BUT i think it may not be enough.  i think consuming the oil extracted from them would be much better.  have you tried using oil extracted from flax or chia ?

On an other personal note, I ate about a pint of raw oysters last night and feel such foods have helped me reached a new peak of metal acuity. Its amazing how just a few servings of raw sea food a week can improve ones thinking. This is more than just my imagination, before this diet I had sever decline in mental functioning and clarity of thought, as well as a plethora of physical health issues, that kept me from even being able to be happy. Now I have found a happiness that I don't think was possible before,  which is a good sign that I am doing something right. Not only My own happiness, but I have applied what I have learned to raising my children and so far the results are amazing.

i would LOVE to add raw seafood to my diet.  do you know what is the parasite situation with oysters ?  shrimp ?

 Wrong again. Carnivores tend to be more intelligent than herbivores, so clearly diet is an important factor as regards intelligence.

and doctors tend to be more intelligent than janitors - this obviously could only be because doctors eat a healthier diet !

also animals are more intelligent than plants, so this definitely proves that chlorophyll causes brain damage !

what you all fail to realize is human brain takes more than a decade to grow to full size.  most other animals have their brains develop in a little more than a year.  if any other animal on whatever diet it had continued to grow its brain for 10+ years well it would be like a martian.  simply put diet is NOT a factor in brain size at all.

the biggest rise in apeman brain-size in the Palaeolithic era occurred in tandem with a massive increase in meat-consumption by apemen.

i am not denying that the two are related.

i am also not denying that CO2 and global temperature is related.  unfortunately for Al Gore global temperature rise is the cause and CO2 increase is the effect.

in case of brain size and hunting lifestyle - the two apparently drove each other.  bigger brain made man able to hunt ( using weapons ) while a hunting lifestyle in turn put evolutionary pressure on man to grow an even bigger brain.

macronutrient breakdown of diet at best had a secondary role here. 

our brains became most powerful not because of what we ate but because of how we used to get that food - namely using weapons.  wolves, tigers and lions are relatively dumb despite being carnivores - because they don't need to make any special tools to hunt.

it is because humans have:

1 - an opposing thumb
2 - can't run very fast, and don't have huge claws

that the only way for us to hunt was by using brains. 

go back to the timeline - the cause must precede the effect.  how could we have started hunting BEFORE inventing weapons ?  and how could we have invented weapons if we needed meat to grow a brain that could invent them ?

your theory is bogus

You're not being too bright.  The fact is that those studies showed that brain-size decreased by 8 percent once we switched from the Palaeolithic era to the Neolithic era. The only major change around that time was a major reduction of animal food in the human diet and a corresponding consumption of grains, dairy and legumes. Given that the Eskimoes have the largest brain-sizes and were until recently eating all-animal food diets(well, 96 to 99 percent at least), that supports the notion that it was the eating of meat that made human brains bigger and that a reduction in meat-consumption led to a smaller brain-size.

has it ever occurred to you that hunting requires greater intelligence than collecting welfare checks ?  you can feed a retard on welfare anything you want and his IQ is still going to be zero.

our brains are withering away because we don't need them any more.  eskimos need big brains because they live in an adverse environment.  

humans are on a fast course to becoming dumber than sh1t, and you aren't going to be able to stop this with any dietary guidelines.  you will have to get rid of welfare, unions, minimum wage laws and warning labels.

I think there is more to it than more meat means bigger brain, I mean lions don't have huge brains.  But I also think there is some truth to it, I just haven't unravelled it yet.  I think TD is correct though that it takes generations for degeneration to set it.  Omega-3s, for instance, are concentrated in sperm and mother's milk.  But each generation that consumes an omega-3 deficient diet leaves less for the next generation.

wake up and smell the coffee - half an ounce of chia seed oil contains as much omega 3 as the entire human brain.

http://www.amazon.com/Virgin-Chia-12oz-Glass-Bottle/dp/B004PWMQKG/ref=sr_1_1?s=miscellaneous&ie=UTF8&qid=1299883679&sr=1-1

that's actually why i don't use chia oil - it has TOO MUCH omega 3.  i just blend chia seeds in my Vitamix - they also add thickness to my smoothie.

the argument goes that by eating more meat/fish our brains were able to evolve to their present large size.  I am not saying this like it is gospel, don't misinterpret me, I am just wondering if anyone else has heard this and maybe someone could point me to the source.

i don't buy the argument.  if it were true then all vegetarians would be retards, but i am not aware of any such statistical correlation.

May I ask for the source of your estimate of 100 grams of fiber a day for historic paleolithic humans?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=paleolithic+100+gram+fiber

Whole fruits and veggies have the correct amount of fiber for their digestion

are you trying to imply that fruits, vegetables and leafy greens have the same ratio of sugar to fiber ?  for 100 grams of product apples have 10/2 grams of sugar/fiber while spinach leaf has 0/2 grams of sugar/fiber.  

you only have to worry about fiber if you are eating processed foods.

so if you're getting one tenth of the fiber that your ancestors did it's not a problem because ... why ?  where is the logic ?

But on the whole fiber is unimportant when eating paleo.

why ?  what's so special about paleo that fiber is important to everybody else but not you ?

You are accusing me of saying something I never said (re "knowing").

yes you did:

I am being Socratic to show how absurd the whole smoothie/juicing thing is."

you suggested that smoothie/juicing is absurd.  making a statement implies that you know what you're talking about. 

you didn't answer any of the questions I posed.

what questions ?  didn't you say that you were simply trolling ?

If you think smoothies have merit, then maybe you can convince me with reason/logic/evidence.

sure thing.  paleos were estimated to consume about 100 grams of fiber a day - how much fiber do YOU consume ?  a single smoothie i make contains 25 grams of fiber.

Smoothies with berries and raw eggs are a good breakfast / pre workout shake nothing special about it just taste and nutrients unless you are on a 1 meal a day diet or something.

+ they digest super fast  

yeah smoothies are light on your digestive system and heavy on nutrition.  i can pack a smoothie with 60 - 70 grams of protein and not feel slowed down by it a single bit.

in my opinion the key though ( if you don't want it to rob you of energy ) is to keep both the sugar and fat to a reasonalbe amount.  

too much sugar causes a shock to your body with the effect of this narcotic feeling like you had about half a shot of vodka.  
too much fat would probably rob you of some of the energy that you normally get from a good green smoothie, but it probably wouldn't be too bad.  nothing like the horrible feeling after eating roasted solid food or even the drain you feel after eating lightly cooked ( simmered ) solid food.

this would be a sample smoothie for me ( in fact i just might have one after this post ):

* one whole orange, with outer portion of the skin peeled
* one whole raw egg
* 100 grams organic spinach
* 30 grams nutiva hemp protein
* 20 grams green superfood ( combination of "vitamineral green" and "pure synergy" )
* 50 grams animal protein powder ( combination of whey isolate, micellar casein and egg protein - all unflavored )
* one spoon bee pollen
* one gram ascorbic acid crystals ( Vitamin C )

links:

https://store.nutiva.com/hemp-protein/

http://www.healthforce.com/shop?page=shop.product_details&flypage=garden_flypage.tpl&product_id=6&category_id=1

http://www.thesynergycompany.com/ps_about.html

http://www.amazon.com/Syntrax-Nectar-Medical-Unflavored-1-Pound/dp/B001I1NSUY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1299771648&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Muscle-Feast-MC5-Hardcore-Micellar/dp/B002PYLOX6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1299771685&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Eggwhite-Protein-100%25-Pure-Unflavored/dp/B000RLKX3G/ref=sr_1_14?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1299771698&sr=1-14

http://www.amazon.com/Y-S-Organic-Bee-Farms-Granules/dp/B00014I80Y/ref=sr_1_5?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1299771811&sr=1-5

http://www.amazon.com/Ascorbic-Acid-Powder-Vitamin-Crystals/dp/B0002BB5V0/ref=sr_1_1?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1299771832&sr=1-1

i add water only as necessary to make it blend, i may or may not use water on any given day.  if it comes out too warm from the blending i may blend two or three ice cubes in.  i use water from a reverse osmosis system.