Thursday, August 24, 2006

Why eating only meat?

I’ve already read a lot about low-carbs diet, and only recently did I read about diets of NO-carbs. In fact, the only carbs come from animals organs and from eggs.

The inuits (of past times), many primitive tribes, and more recently, the arctic explorer Stefansson and even more recently, the interesting character Owsley « The Bear » Stanley have proven that a diet composed 100% of meat is not only suitable for humans, but it is a very healthy diet. The only important point is that most of this meat should be raw. The Bear is truly the one who sparked my recent interest toward the all-meat diet.

One thing is sure, I won’t pee all my bones away from eating all this meat as a vegetarian would probably suggest. It seems the opposite is true though, eating meat strengthen the bones. I need to find some evidence.

I make a lot of pemmican, which is dried meat grounded in the blender and mixed with melted suet fat or pork leaf fat. It makes a great snack, and it can be preserved for a very long time at room temperature. I dry it at about 104 fahrenheit, which might cause damage to some possible traces of vitamin C, but it doesn’t do a thing to the proteins and precious nutrients (carnitine, carnosine, creatine (the 3 Cs!) and taurine)

Eggs, I only eat the yolks raw and throw away the whites. The whites are poor in nutrition and too high in protein.

One problem with many low-carbs diet is that they are low-fat and high protein. This cause the horrendous mouth smell and bad body odor. Diet should be around 80% of calories from fat, 20% from protein.

At first, urine is high in ketones, because the body can’t efficiently use all the fat-derived-ketones. According to some, especially the “Bear” Stanley who has been eating only meat for about 49 years, it is only after 2 to 6 weeks that you become efficient at burning fat and notice a highly increased energy, and much more endurance than carb-eaters. Too many carbs will prevent this (10g might be too much, I don’t have specific numbers and the Bear doesn’t recommend more than 5). I don’t intend to eat any dairy products except possibly some ghee.

About the intestinal bacterias: we, humans, are adapted to eat vegetables. We have a very small caecum, which is a pouch that allows bacterias to survive whenever you don’t eat. Herbivores have a huge one, carnivores have none. Ours is very small. The idea is that it is only there in case of emergency, whenever one eat carbs and mainly fibers. The total count of bacterias in the colon of a meat-eater is probably very small, and the wastes of such a digestion are minimal.

Do you see animal using toilet papers? Ideal digestion does not require the use of toilet paper. Eating diets high in grains make you need a lot of toilet paper.

Saturated fats are bad? No, they are not.

Our own reserve of fat is made of “animal fat”, which is high in saturated AND monounsaturated fats. Does that mean that someone fasting is clogging his arteries because he’s running on animal fat? We’re in fact pretty efficient at burning this fat.

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