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This is the information I was looking for. And, I'm assuming (correct me if I'm wrong), that this becomes more crucial when you are eating ZC and you depend upon 100% of your nutrients to come from meat; hence why you responded as you did to the original comment about eating raw meat. From a practical standpoint, I understand what Amber was saying when she answered "no." Perhaps her answer wasn't strictly scientifically correct, and maybe the correct answer is "maybe," but from the standpoint of a novice reading her blog--a novice who might be considering ZC for the first time--a "yes" or "maybe" answer may have caused them to stop reading and considering there. I will admit, that if back in 2003, before I ever tried LC the first time, someone had told me that IF was a necessity, I would have run away screaming assuming they were crazy. But--I think that IF is a good compliment to LCHF, and may help my body in it's necessary processes, and I have "discovered" it and worked into it on my own time, doing my own ancillary research once I had the "basics" of LC downpat. Summarizing it this way: Extreme positions, while perhaps technically "correct," will have a way of frightening the less extreme members of any community. Now that I am following both ZIOH and Principia Carnviora on FB (though not really an active participant), and I have read their FAQs, have read the posts of those who are long-termers and short-termers, I am more in tune with the more difficult messages they have to say. I am eating my meat "more rare" than I did before. My mind is not necessarily forcing myself to eat a vegetable; I'm feeling it's okay to eat just meat on occasion. Reading what you say about eating a bite raw, then the rest of the meat as rare does begin to seem more palatable (both figuratively and literally). |
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Thanks Kikor...I have found that one as well, and I do seem to think that the "leaders" seem much less "nasty" in their answers. Are you a member there? Do you post often? |
Marvin, there is a ZC thread here in this forum. It's not particularly active right now, but I got a lot of information on the WOE from it, as well as by following links in the thread.
Do an advanced search for "zero carb" and you should find it. |
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Not just animals have worms, my daughter is a big salt water fisherperson and the bigger the fish the more worm infested it is. Tapeworms that is. She releases the big ones... |
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oh, much, much, much, much more nicer and respectful. :agree: |
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Martin, thanks, I'm very familiar with the Stefansson experiment. I'm not discrediting zero carb. I'd simply like to know more about an all fat/protein diet and how it impacts the metabolism. I currently moderate my protein in order to keep gluconeogenesis to a minimum. I have no doubt Stefansson did not experience loss of muscle mass, as he ate a healthy amount of protein to prevent this from happening. As for scurvy, it seems that it was never an issue for Stafansson and others who eat this way, as they don't suffer the same malady that sailors did in the past when they were eating hard bread and carbs that could be packed away for an ocean voyage. Vitamin C supplementation (limes/lemons) is necessary in those conditions. Amazing what the human body can do when it's fed what it's intended to consume!!! |
Frankly, of all the world-view shattering studies that Gary Taubes introduces in GCBC, the Bellevue experiment is the one that was most fascinating to me.
My next door neighbor is a biochemistry professor at the U, specializing in diseases of horses. Horses are not humans. But you'd think he'd have heard of the Bellevue experiment, right? I mean...biochemistry! Nope. We had a nice conversation about it last summer, while we were weeding our respective gardens. He thought it as interesting as I had. |
I've been reading about all of the Arctic explorers' land-based excursions, and the journals of the British officers like Franklin express alarm at the uncouth behaviour of the Indians and Inuit when they kill a deer or caribou after several days without food - they dove face first into the stomach contents and ate them raw. Of course this would contain the undigested grass and whatever plants they had eaten, containing Vitamin C. They also report that the voyageurs doing all of the paddling, portaging & heavy loaded work loved to eat fat, even bear fat.
Of course the successful Canadian and British explorers like Stefansson, Rae, Dease were successful because they "went native" and learned how to hunt. |
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That's another point of contention. I mean, whether it's true or not. One side says they did exactly as reported, while the other side says it's a prank cuz it's literally disgusting, inedible, unpalatable. Imagine throwing up. That's the taste of stomach contents. I'm pretty sure the natives knew what it tastes like, and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have liked it either, and I'm also pretty sure they had a good sense of humor. So, is it a prank at the expense of ignorant tourists, is it some invention to support the vitamin C argument? Probably both. Raw meat cures scurvy. |
I don't think the stomach contents would so closely resemble ours, there's a big difference in our digestive processes. I'm willing to cede that some of the Inuit did eat this.
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But obviously by calorie, the stomach contents will have been a small portion of what an animal had to offer. And I've never seen anything suggesting that the explorers who followed the Inuit's lead went so far as eating from the stomach. |
Teaser, I read a little bit of that article and I find too many things that are obviously wrong. For example:
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That's a contradiction. Moist muscle meat won't store, because of the moisture. Take out the moisture, it can then be stored for years, especially when sealed with rendered fat, where the moisture there has also been removed. I think water is the key for long-term storage of meat, but when you think about it, it applies to basically everything, from metals to fabrics. As for eating stomach contents for supposed nutritional value, I just killed a 800lbs animal with 100lbs of fat on its back, but most especially an adrenal gland with all the vitamin C that me and my entire family would ever need for a long time (consumed immediately, of course), until the next 800lbs animal I kill. It's a myth and it keeps going for reasons that sound good but fail to pass the test when we dig just a little bit deeper. Here's an idea. Inuit tribes talk to each other. What one tribe knows, all other tribes know. Also, they talk to other tribes across the continent so for example, if one figured out how to make pemmican to preserve meat for years, this obviously essential knowledge would quickly pass on to every other tribe on the continent, and supercede basically every other inferior methods for long-term storage. So, we get caribou pemmican, fish pemmican, buffalo pemmican, pemmican made with basically every large game species they hunt. It's the same for adrenals and vitamin C, they couldn't know about vitamin C, but they sure knew about the cause-effect relationship. With the same context, let's make the same argument for eating the stomach contents of a freshly killed large game animal. Here's another idea. Inuits were obviously not dumb. I mean, if we think they were just smart enough to survive the extremely harsh conditions, let's see what smart European tourists did in those same harsh conditions. Oops, they all died of some stupid thing or other. So, those smart European tourists were just not smart enough, not as smart as the dumb Inuits. So who wrote all these texts about what the Inuits did to survive the harsh conditions? If it's the dumb European tourists who all died of some stupid thing, how could they even begin to write about it with any accuracy? In the grand scheme of things, I'm going to favor the writings of somebody who went there, stayed there for years, adopted all the local customs therefore abandoned all his previous customs, and lived to tell the story. In the Bellevue all-meat experiment, the subjects didn't eat the stomach contents of anything, not even once. Where does this idea come from, that they ate the stomach contents of a freshly killed caribou, that it had a sweet appealing taste of any kind? Certainly not from somebody who actually did it. Maybe from somebody who saw somebody else do it, but I doubt it. I haven't read anything that describes this in unambiguous terms, i.e. "I saw him to it, I did it myself", it's all "they say, they talk about it, it is said that, I heard about it, etc". We could keep the myth going, or somebody just try it for himself, go out and kill a caribou, cut out the stomach and eat it right there on the spot, then write about his experience. |
Put yourself in their shoes. What would you talk about if you met somebody from another tribe once or twice a year? The weather, a pretty flower you just saw a few miles back, a joke you heard two months ago that was so hilarious you just gotta share it with your distant cousin? How about this one. Hey cousin, I just met some European tourists and they asked me how I could ever survive here. So I told them I ate the stomach contents of a freshly killed caribou, and they went right in and tried it for themselves. Oh what fun we had, you shoulda seen their faces. How bout you, anything new? Yeah, we figured out how to preserve meat for years, you just cut it up, dry it, render the fat, mix together in the animal's skin like a big bag, seal up the seams with the fat, put it in a cool dry place for storage, eat it like that or boiled or something. A piece is pretty light (up to 90lbs), you can carry it on your back, gives you food for a couple months. Well, next year, everybody knows the joke, and everybody knows how to preserve meat for years. They don't need the joke to survive, but it keeps going cuz it's soo hilarious.
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Yes, many contradictions, and the Bellevue experiment primarily fat, meat and very little organ meat. A telling paragraph from Stefansson's autobiography: Quote:
Stefansson and Andersen lived on a meat and water only diet for approximately 12 months and experienced no ill effects with the exception that Andersen contracted pneumonia during a short period; however, it was observed as a milder case compared to others at the time. |
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This isn't really a contradiction, just a different way of preserving meat. People in warmer climes were dependent on drying meat out for preservation, the Inuit had a ready-made freezer in the environment. I'm not saying that the Inuit needed to eat the stomach contents. I could see an acute need causing people to try foods they otherwise wouldn't. I don't think blue cheese is a necessary foodstuff--but you could see cheese going "bad" in this way, and due to necessity/food shortages, somebody ends up trying it, and finds that it's an acquirable taste. There's nothing unbelievable about people eating stomach contents of the caribou, to me. Or bird's nest soup. Or natto. I might not line up for some anytime soon, but people eat all kinds of stuff that sounds weird to our cultural palate. Quote:
The peoples we call the Inuit are not a homogenous group. Steffanson ate with some Inuit. He didn't travel across the land, eating in every northern village from Alaska to Greenland. Steffanson is evidence that eating the stomach contents wasn't necessary for the avoidance of scurvy--but he's not proof that the practice didn't exist. |
I wouldn't be so quick to discount this. One of the things I feed my dog is lamb tripe (stomach tissue and contents). It smells gross, but he absolutely loves it! It is considered to be very nutritious, and also a good source of enzymes. We've really gotten very "soft" with what we consider edible--most of us won't even eat organ meats, which were once considered delicacies. It's really important to eat as much of the animal as you can, if that is your only sustenance.
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