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From: Ray Audette <
Subject: Dr Voegtlin's "Stone Age Diet"
Dr. Walter L. Voegtlin was a gastrointerologist who's book "The Stone Age Diet" was self-published in 1975. It was based on the treatment he used for decades to treat colitis, Krones Disease, Irritated Bowel Syndrome, and indigestion. It can still be obtained through inter-library loan (OK State U has a copy).
The diet described is very similar to "NeanderThin" except that he allows some dairy products (those that contain no sweet milk) and forbids most fruits and vegetables. The few fruits and vegetables he does allow must be cooked and separated from their juices. For people who are "only" obese he does allow a few raw fruits and vegetables.
Dr. Voegtlin justifies this more carnivores approach by point out that in almost part of the world, vegatable consumption is very seasonal. Without the recent invention of canning, they are practically imposible to obtain during winter or the dry seasons that occur everywhere. He references all known hunter-gatherers to make this point.
As does my book, he also states that the human digestive system most closly resembles that of a dog. He does this in three chapters and concludes with charts that compare man to dogs and herbavores. These charts compare; teeth, jaws, stomach, colon, cecum, gallbladder, digestive activity, feeding habits, ratio of body lenth to total digestive tract and small intestine, and survival after removal stomach, colon and cecum, microorganisms, plant food and animal proteins.
His book discourages the use of laxatives or high fiber suplements claiming they only irritate and strain the system. He also covers the history of vitamins claiming that they weren't considered important to the average person until farmers discovered that they could be used to sell fresh vegetables at exhorbitant prices to gullible yankees during winter.
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