The Inuit Paradox | How can people who gorge on fat and rarely see a vegetable be healthier than we are?
Christina Wodtke stashed this in food
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F*ck the food pyramid, eat fat, protein and avoid grains like the plague.
Stefansson had arrived at this conclusion, too, while living among the Copper Eskimo. He recalled how he and his Eskimo companions had become quite ill after weeks of eating “caribou so skinny that there was no appreciable fat behind the eyes or in the marrow.” Later he agreed to repeat the miserable experience at Bellevue Hospital, for science’s sake, and for a while ate nothing but defatted meat. “The symptoms brought on at Bellevue by an incomplete meat diet [lean without fat] were exactly the same as in the Arctic . . . diarrhea and a feeling of general baffling discomfort,” he wrote. He was restored with a fat fix but “had lost considerable weight.” For the remainder of his year on meat, Stefansson tucked into his rations of chops and steaks with fat intact. “A normal meat diet is not a high-protein diet,” he pronounced. “We were really getting three-quarters of our calories from fat.” (Fat is more than twice as calorie dense as protein or carbohydrate, but even so, that’s a lot of lard. A typical U.S diet provides about 35 percent of its calories from fat.)
They did a disservice to it by calling it "fat". Makes people not want to eat it.
Call it bacon!
Then everyone will want to eat it!
and more! http://caloriesproper.com/?p=2030 It's clear fat is important.
7:24 AM May 17 2013