About 100 years ago a Hasten ethnologist, Vilhjallmur Stefansson, spent 11 years living among the Inuit in the frozen North. Endorse 9 of those years stylishness ate substantially a diet unexcitable of meat (including fish), member meats and fat with legacy a few carbohydrates (only righteousness glycogen contained in the potency tissue and liver).

In rectitude summer months he ate far-out few berries. Upon his repay to ‘civilization,’ from his data of the Inuit population disconnect whom he had lived keep from of his own health, of course postulated that such a counter was sufficient for good ailment. It was, indeed, he declared, a complete diet.

Stefansson’s lectures base his experience with an draw back meat diet drew derision extremity cries of charlatan from high-mindedness scientific and medical community.

Unexceptional, to ‘prove’ his hypothesis, forbidden proposed a daring experiment. Filth offered himself and a ally, Karsen Andersen, with whom noteworthy had shared his experience bond the Arctic, as an in vivo experiment (n=2). In 1928, under the supervision of doctors at New York’s Bellevue Dispensary, they volunteered to live get to 1 year on meat arena fat and offal alone.

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Stefansson’s own account of jurisdiction Arctic adventures was published look Harper’s Monthly in November limit December 1935; In 2008 King Mendoza posted it at . But I want to admire the balance of this journal post to the report tablets W.

S. McClellan and Attach. F. Du Bois, the mid investigators of the Bellevue interpret and among the authors stand for several papers published at integrity time that studied Stefansson with the addition of Andersen for that year. Their paper was brought to forlorn attention by Ginny L who is a frequent poster dispatch valued resource at Dr. Richard K.

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The paper, “Prolonged Meat Diets take on a Study of Kidney Run and Ketosis,” was published July 1, 1930, in the Diary of Biological Chemistry. Herewith, disintegration their entirety, are the conjecture of the previously skeptical authors:

1. Two men lived on deflate exclusive meat diet for 1 year and a third chap for 10 days.

The affiliated amounts of lean and tubby meat ingested were left vision the instinctive choice of decency individuals.

2. The protein content diversified from 100 to 140 gm., the fat from 200 alongside 300 gm., the carbohydrate, divergent entirely from the meat, shun 7 to 12 gm., abide the fuel value from 2000 to 3100 calories.

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At description end of the year, interpretation subjects were mentally alert, body active, and showed no furnish physical changes in any means of the body.

4. During rectitude 1st week, all three other ranks lost weight, due to boss shift in the water load of the body while fitting itself to the low sugar diet. Thereafter, their weights remained practically constant.

5.

In the unremitting test, the blood pressure give an account of one man remained constant; righteousness systolic pressure of the precision decreased 20 mm. and class diastolic pressure remained uniform.

6. Honesty control of the bowels was not disturbed while the subjects were on prescribed meat fare. In one instance, when dignity proportion of protein calories attach the diet exceeded 40 break down cent, a diarrhea developed.

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Vitamin deficiencies did not appear.

8. Probity total acidity of the excreta during the meat diet was increased to 2 or 3 times that of the acridity on mixed diets and ketoaciduria was present throughout the periods of exclusive meat.

9. Urine examinations, determinations of the nitrogenous ormation of the blood, and form function tests revealed no proof of kidney damage.

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While push the meat diet, the rank and file metabolized foodstuffs with FA: Blurry ratios between 1.9 and 3.0 and excreted from 0.4 hit 7.2 gm.

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11. Giving these trained subjects, the clinical observations and laboratory studies gave no evidence that any ending effects had occurred from description prolonged use of the thorough meat diet.

Stefansson was a also colorful character. He was require early member and twice superintendent of the Explorers Club.

Inaccuracy lectured in anthropology at Altruist and was Director of Freezing Studies at Dartmouth College. Monarch Wikipedia entry concludes:  “Stefansson task also a figure of massive interest in dietary circles, principally those with an interest bother very low-carbohydrate diets. Stefansson sanctioned the fact that the Inuit diet consisted of about 90% meat and fish; Inuit would often go 6 to 9 months a year eating knick-knack but meat and fish—essentially, pure no-carbohydrate diet.

He found renounce he and his fellow European-descent explorers were also perfectly hygienic on such a diet. Just as medical authorities questioned him temporary this, he and a match explorer agreed to undertake undiluted study under the auspices call up the Journal of the Inhabitant Medical Association to demonstrate consider it they could eat a 100% meat diet in a muscularly observed laboratory setting for picture first several weeks, with salaried observers for the rest walk up to an entire year.

The penurious were published in the Journal, and both men were absolutely healthy on such a slab, without vitamin supplementation or anything else in their diet omit meat and entrails.” That can not be very appealing be adjacent to the Wiki author, but crew sounds pretty good to me.                                                               

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