The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marxist and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

The Definitive Guide to Saturated Fat. It's probably the one thing that prevents people from fully buying into the primal blueprint.

Almost anyone can agree with the basic tenets, eating more vegetables, choosing only clean

organic meats, and getting plenty of sleep and exercise is fairly acceptable to the mainstream

notion of good nutrition. The concept of GROC and a lifestyle based on

evolutionary biology can be a harder cell, but anyone who's familiar with and accepts, the basics

of human evolution tends to agree, at least intellectually, whether they follow through and

adopt the lifestyle is another question.

But saturated fat?

People have this weird conditioned response to the very phrase.

But what about all that saturated fat?

Aren't you worried about clogging up your arteries?

In fact, saturated fat isn't just that. It's often artery-clogging saturated fat.

Hell, a Google search for that exact phrase in quotations produces 4,490 entries. I'm soon to be

4,491, I suppose. Most doctors tow the company line and roundly condemn it, while the media generally follows suit.

The public, unsurprisingly, laps it up from birth.

The result is a deeply ingrained systemic assumption that saturated fat is evil, bad, dangerous, and sinful, a preconceived notion that precludes

any meaningful dialogue from taking place. Everyone knows that saturated fat clogs your arteries.

That's treated as a given. And attempting to even question that assumption gets you lumped in the crazy category.

After all, if you start from such a fundamentally incorrect position, how can the rest of your

argument be trusted? Thus, talk about the superior cardiovascular health of the Tokelau, with their

50% dietary saturated fat intake, or the Maasai with their

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