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And if meat was a significant part of our diets, cholesterol and atherosclerosis wouldn't be problems like they are now.

And they were not ... until very recent times. If you look at the data available about the hunter-gatherer tribes, they did not have heart disease, diabetes, obesity, even cancer - despite sometimes having the higher saturated fat intake compared even to today's US. Look up the Kitavians, Masai, the Inuit ...



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