Polysaccharides are long-chain sugars, and they are generally in vegetables and fruits, esp. in seaweed and konjac. They are sometimes called "soluble fiber" but I think that confuses the issue.
Basically they are not very digestible, so what they do is "slow down" digestion so your food digests over a longer time period. This changes the microbial mix in the gut, and makes for less insulin release, and more thorough digestion. But one of the big deals is that some of them (konjac especially, but also pectin) are eaten by bacteria in the colon to produce butyrate, which your colon needs to be healthy and to prevent gut cancer.
There are probably animal parts that act this way too, but I don't think they are the animal parts that are commonly eaten these days. The Neanderthals and Inuit and even the French and British in the past, ate stuff like feathers, scales, whole insects. When they look at coprolites, they see a lot of undigested animal/fish/insect parts. If you look at the scat of any wild carnivore, you see the same: feathers, bones, claws. Those *undigested* parts are as important to the carnivore's digestion as the digested parts are. They act as a matrix and catalyst for the digestive process and microbes.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:12 AM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@yahoo.com > wrote:
What are polysaccharides ?
What was the problem with the lack of them? What foods are they in?
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com , Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
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> LOL. Food as retaliation!
>
> I did the reverse: a mostly-meat diet for some period of time. Now I eat a
> lot of rice and fish, and vegies. Rice, oddly enough, actually has a pretty
> good protein profile, and I really love it. My blood glucose has been doing
> very well, and the carbs don't seem to be a problem.
>
> However, the high amounts of iron I was getting on my "lots of beef" diet
> (along with the lack of polysaccharides and eating molasses, I think) raised
> my ferritin levels. High ferritin levels will impact your blood sugar and
> blood pressure badly, though it is likely a genetic issue: some people just
> don't get high ferritin levels no matter what they eat.
>
>
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> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:28 AM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@...>wrote:
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> > Good points, I noticed that also.
> >
> > I might try eating animal food only meals once in a while, when I eat
> > alone. I doubt I would animal foods exclusively for long periods, partly
> > because I like to share meals with friends, I go out to a restaurant with
> > friends at least once every 2 weeks. Yeah, I know if I were determined, I
> > would order meat-only from the restaurant, but I probably won't.
> >
> > I love the idea of a meat-only diet, just for the propaganda retaliation
> > against the vegans the vegetarians! - LOL - I am an ex-vegetarian ;-)
> >
> > - T
> >
> >
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