I think she was talking about removing the chicken skin before she took up paleo/primal, in the old mindset of "eat fat = be fat".

Nowadays, the roasted chicken skin is one of my favorite treats. (I remember being in Europe, decades ago, at a fancy dinner, and a doctor there wasn't interested in the roasted meat so much as the fat and skin -- and the rest of us watched her in astonishment as she ate. Now I can understand that she was making a healthy choice!)

I think, though, if you can't afford organic, free-range chicken, that the general advice is to remove the skin before eating, anyhow, right? Because in conventionally raised animals, the toxins are stored in the fat, and I don't think the skin is healthy, in that case. I could be wrong.

I know that for one of my very sensitive family members, any kind of conventionally raised meat is out of the question. If the animal has been fed soy, and/or antibiotics, its meat is poisonous to my loved one. (Forget about the skin... the whole creature might as well be poison, including the bones made into soup.)

FaylinaMeir wrote: »

qkcam wrote: »

I ate 1900 calories today and I'm slowly losing weight and feel great! I was stuck at my weight for months eating 1200 calories or 1900 it didn't matter. I increased fat, lowered calories and bam, weight loss. /quote]

I meant to say "lowered carbs". haha

@Akimajuktuq dunno if the pancakes was towards me or her but I know me personally no way in he HELL would I have ever considered eating paleo pancakes in the past. I was convinced eating that much fat in one sitting woulda killed me.

Dragonwolf wrote: »

Also, by nixing the skins, you're missing out on a fair bit of selenium and other nutrients, it's not just a gob of fat and nothing else -- http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/poultry-products/658/2

Not to mention most of the natural flavor of the chicken! yummy /quote]

qkcam wrote: »

also i have really low HDL issues .. i wonder if all this healthy fat will bring up the HDL or make my LDL worse?

It increases both on the test, because it increases the size of the LDL particles, which is a good thing.