Here is why you should not go low fat/lean meat only
Look to Steffanson if you are tempted to go "low-fat". Vilhjalmur was a anthropoloist interest in diets of other people. " He joined the Angol-American Polar Expedition and traveled to the Arctic " (Living the Low-Carb Life). He made several trips. In 1908 he stayed for 4 years and in 1913 he stayed for 5 years. He lived with the Eskimos and ate as they ate. He felt grand, expect for one time when he could only get lean meat. He fell sick but the sickness quickly resolved with the reintroduction of fat to his diet. At one point he particiapted in a study. For one year, he and a friend named Dr. Karsten Anderson, became lab mice for a meat only experient. It was conducted at Bellevue Hospital in NY City. Anderson did very well and there were no ill effects of eating meat all day everyday. He is a little about the Bellevue Diet Experiment.
From Bowen's Living the Low-carb life-Page 18 of the hardback
"One interesing sidebar: Anderson was able to eat anything he liked as often as he wanted, provided that it came under the experimental definition of meat: steaks, chops, brains fried in bacon fat, boiled short ribs, chicken, fish, liver and bacon. But because Stefansson had reported in one of his books, My Life With The Eskimo, that he had become very ill when he had to go two or three weeks on just lean meat ("caribou so skinny that there was no appreciable fat"), DuBois, who headed the experiment, sugested that for a while they try a lean-meat only diet on Stefansson to contrast the results with those of Anderson, who was eating whatever mix of fat and meat he felt like. They continued to give Anderson as much fat as he liked, but Steffanson was limited to chopped fatless meat.
Stefansson wrote:
The symptoms brought on at Bellevue by an incomplete meat diet (lean without fat) were exactly the same as in the Arctic, except that they came on faster-diarrhea and the feeling of general baffling dicomfort. Up north the Eskimos and I had been cured immediately when we got some fat. DuBois now cured me the same way, by giving me fat sirloin steaks, brains fried in bacon fat and things of that sort. In two or three days I was all right, but I had lost considerable weight. If yours is a meat diet then you simply must have fat with your lean; otherwise you would sicken and die."
The following is my summary of the pages from 10-20 of the book:
Later in life, he had adopted a western diet. He fell off the wagon! Here is a little about that. He had a mild cerebral thrombosis. He had gained some weight. He and the Mrs. went on the Eskimo diet. They ate meat, eggs, an occasional grapefruit. Drank freshly ground coffee and an occasional wine. According to Mrs. Stef - he lost 17 pounds, Went from irritable and depressd to being "his old ebullient, optimistic self", his arthritis disappeared, hip and shoulder pain disappeared.
Hope this helps and please ignore the typos.
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