[pct-l] High Fat Food and thru hiking

[gwschenk at socal.rr.com]

---- ned at mountaineducation.org wrote: 
> I imagine that I'm missing something here. It seams that hikers are 
> concerned about what they eat, and that is very good, but is the talk about 
> fats, hydrogenated oils/fats, etc. taken in the context of a metabolism 
> churning along sun-up to sun-down accomplishing an extremely rigorous 
> activity?
> 
> If I remember correctly, most hikers loose weight on their hikes because 
> they are burning tons of calories. Is the ingestion of fats in this context 
> something to be concerned about?

In Cindy Ross's book she complained about her friends mailing her a bunch of healthy low salt, low fat snacks when her body was craving salt and fat!