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hopefully Doc has some input here. this quote is from a utub conversation concerning Inuit foods and contemporary meat-only diets . . .
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That was a question I asked myself after discovering that many people around the world are using meat only diets to address inflammatory and auto immune disorders.
Some of the people I'm following look exquisitely healthy after living many years eating nothing but steak.
It looks to me to be a very boring diet but it does tell us that whatever we've learnt to understand about nutrition is far more complicated than many would have us believe.
As for scurvy it looks as if the trace amounts of vitamin c in meat is enough until you include carbohydrates. Managing sugar in the blood is one of the most vital parts of maintaining health so it is no surprise you'll need extra resources of many elements to address the stresses on the body that eating the qualities of carbohydrates in modern food.
See "The Dose is the poison" by "Low Carb Down under".
When you realise that we can only tolerate about 1 teaspoon of sugar in our blood it makes sense that our body does everything possible to burn sugar first or store it as fat.
It may be that a big portion of why there's an epidemic of obesity is the narrative of what we think is healthy that we've been taught our whole lives about nutrition is mostly wrong...
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lots of ways this can go, but what are they? i am completely ignorant about food pyramids, other than beef and spuds, but my wife is dealing with food issues and we don't know what info we can trust . . . we think quackery exists nearly to the submerged tectonic plates. eating a dozen different fruits and drinking seven gallons of water every day just doesn't seem right. or possible
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grizz
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My gut feeling (had to say that) is that the 'carnivore' diet is something to do once-in-a-while, but that we still do need the many chemicals that are unique to plants, so perhaps the 'old way' (mostly fruits in spring and summer, vegetables in summer and winter, and mostly meat winter through spring, may be ideal.
There also seems to be some rationale to 'intermittent fasting'.
It all makes sense if we have the same basic metabolic machinery as animals - that we should utilize the full spectrum of what we can burn as far as fuel. Also that we should 'starve' once in a while (the 'intermittent fasting' diets are usually 16 hours without caloric intake then 8 hours with all your ingested calories).
I find these three 'podcasters' to have interesting stuff that is usually credible:
Watch "The Blue Zone" on Netflix, Youtube, etc. It explores the diets and lifestyles of the 5 Blue Zones of the world. These zones have the highest number of centenarians. Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; The Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California.
My mom has been living this way for a long time. She will be 92 next month, still drives (daytime only), and goes to the gym 4 days a week. Her father was still bowling a 145 average at 98 and lived to 102.
Yes, genetics play a part as much as diet & lifestyle. My goal at 65 is to just outlive her.
I know a whole lot about very little and nothing about a whole lot.
