Dear Mark: Fat Triggers Marijuana-Like Chemicals, Another Anti-Meat Report, and Teff

July 25, 2011

How was the weekend for you? Mine was kinda tough. Great weather beckoned all weekend, and my paddleboard and I shared mournful glances full of longing, but I was stuck inside working on my talk for the upcoming Ancestral Health Symposium at UCLA. I think it’s going to be a good one, though, so hopefully the work pays off. Okay, enough complaining. It’s Monday, which means another round of questions and answers. This week, we’ve got a pair of scary studies that seem to condemn fat and red meat as the nutritional factors ultimately responsible for all that ails us as a society (what else is new?). I also field a question on teff, a grain used in traditional Ethiopian cooking, from a reader who plans on moving there.

Dear Mark,
Could you comment on this study? Family members have been smugly forwarding articles about it, and I can’t take it anymore.
Body’s […]

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