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| What did paleolithic man eat? |
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| Only what he could hunt or gather; there was no agriculture. |
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| What is the omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acid ratio in hunter-gatherers? |
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| Modern hunter gathers such as Eskimos, American Indians, and others have a ratio of 1 part omega-3 to 1 part omega-6 to roughly 1 part omega-3 to 2 parts omega-6. |
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| How did grain based agriculture affect the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio? |
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| Agriculture tended to produce a diet that provided at least four times as much omega-6 as omega-3 |
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| The typical paleo diet is thought to be comprised of roughly what percentage of protein, fat, and carbohydrates? |
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30% protein, 30& fat, and 40% carbs)
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| Saturated fat is made from carbon and hydrogen. The backbone of the fat molecule is made or carbon atom hooked together end to end. Each carbon atom has one hydrogen atom on its left and one hydrogen atom on its right, |
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In an unsaturated fat, one or more of its carbon atoms have been stripped of the pair of hydrogen atoms that are normally attached.
carbons are stripped of the pair of hydrogens normally attached. |
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| How many pairs of hydrogen atoms can get stripped off? |
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| Sometimes, only one carbon atom has been stripped of its pair of hydrogen atoms. However, it makes a difference which one of the chain of carbon atoms has been stripped. If only one carbon has been stripped, then the fat is considered to be mono-unsaturated. If more than one carbon has been stripped, then the fat is polyunsaturated. |
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