[AlaskaAngel]

The discussion is very interesting when considered together with many of RB's posts.

It seems to me that by lumping all types of fats together as if the percentage of the diet that is fats is the only important factor, we may be missing a less obvious factor. The chemistry of the type of fat consumed may make a difference.

That usually results in getting side-tracked into a tug of war over the issue of whether it is more ethical to be vegetarian or not. But if one can skip past that discussion and examine the actual chemistry of the metabolism of fats, do vegetable-based fats tend to form different bonds than meat-based fats do, and in the process of metabolism, does one type of fat tend to bond more easily with toxic or cancer-causing substances, causing them to be retained in the body?

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