Eskimo Diet Experiment

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Hi everyone,

Here's some very interesting information about diets. " Eskimos

thrived in a high state of good health on an almost complete meat and

fat diet. Authorities stated that the diet would probably be harmful

for Europeans. To prove the thesis that a 100% meat diet is

sufficient for sound health, Vilhjalmur Steffansson and Karsten

submitted themselves to an experiment conducted by The

Sage Institute of Pathology at Bellevue Hospital, an

affiliate of the Medical College of Cornell University.

For a period of one year, they ate only fresh meat in the ratio of

two pounds of fresh lean meat to one-half pound of fat per day.

Steffansson, who had been on the Eskimo diet for years, remained in

good health, while was found to be in much better physical

condition than when he began the experiment. "

Source:

http://www.powerhealth.net/articles/requirementsforoptimalhealth.htm

This article also states: It was discovered that as long as they

(Eskimos) ate fresh meat, they obtained an ample supply of vitamin C

which was previously thought to come only from plant sources.

However, cooking at high temperatures destroys vitamin C in both meat

and plant foods.

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