>My question is why, if our ancestors ate mostly lean game meat, >do I crave fat and feel so much better when eating it? My skin >looks better, etc. I have heard that saturated fat is the best >thing you can eat for your heart (in fact it is what your heart >muscle uses for energy). Did our ancestors really eat a lot of >saturated fat (like the Eskimos)? Is that why I crave it so much, >and it makes me feel so good?

I read a book years ago called, " At Home In The Woods," by
Bradford Angier. In the book he tells how frontier-men would die from was known as "Rabbit Malnutrition." It was caused from not getting enough fat in their diet, eating only lean meats like rabbit and deer. Indians, avoided this because they always carried beaver fat with them, and would cook their meat with it.