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You are a fat hunter that has been talked into trimming the meat, and every part of you objects. You were born the fattest primate on earth. About 15% body fat at birth. A chimp arrives at 3. Your first food was more than half fat by calories, and you doubled your brain on it. Your brain is 60% fat by dry weight and has never once asked for a wholegrain. You carry a gallbladder, a small loaded bag of bile whose only job is to meet fat at the door. You recycle 95% of that bile after every meal. The body does not go to that trouble for an occasional treat. You have a receptor on your tongue for fat. It was found this century, about 30 years after you were told to avoid the stuff. Your liver can only process protein up to about a third of your calories. Past that, the ammonia backs up. So lean meat alone cannot run you. The remainder has to be fat, and for most of the ice age nothing else was on offer. That is why every butchery site your ancestors left behind has the long bones smashed open for the marrow. Vitamins A, D, E and K only cross your gut wall in the company of fat. Eat the salad dry and they leave the way they came. Your hormones are built from cholesterol. All of them worth having. A body with a bile tank, a fat receptor, a protein ceiling and a brain made of lard. In 1977 a Senate committee looked at it and prescribed the skinless chicken breast.