Carbohydrate supplements vs sweets

[Billv0]

Vilhjalmur Stefansson followed the same diet as the inuits did and they ate raw. I read his book and im certain he visited them to cure his cancer by eating putrefying raw meat that was left in the ground for months or years. I read it some where that the inuits ate everything raw or otherwise boiled the meat keeping it pink in the center.

There must have been a reason these guys ate it raw and not cooked as they have been living that way for some 2,500 years.

Just like no civilization ate 100% raw vegetables neither did a civilization eat consisting only of meat that was 100% cooked and not raw and from previous posts of Nu it took him several years to realise what a bad idea an entirely raw veg diet can do. Im just wondering if Nu realises he is playing guinea pig to another experiment.


Just debating not arguing.

[NU_nutrition_TS]

I think you are mixing up Stefansson with someone else - I have never read that he had cancer. You can read his biography here:
Vilhjalmur Stefansson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From what I can gather he lived a long and healthy life having been born in 1879 and dying in 1962, just short of his 83rd year.

As to his observations of diet - he has written on this extensively and you should read his words directly: while some fish/whale blubber was eaten raw (actually partially frozen) much was eaten cooked (pricipally boiled, though other methods were sometimes used depending on the food). You can read excerpts from his book here:
Stefansson 1 - Eskimos Prove An All Meat Diet Provides Excellent Health.
Stefansson 2 - Eskimos Prove An All Meat Diet Provides Excellent Health.
Stefansson 3 - Eskimos Prove An All Meat Diet Provides Excellent Health.

It didn't take me several years to realise a 100% raw plant-based diet was not healthy - I would say 6 months to a year at the most. I have been eating my current diet far longer than that and am more than happy with my health and body composition.

[Bueno84]

Nu,

Aside from Stefansson, are there any other LC/HF books that you recommend?

I have read (or have and plan to soon read) material by the following:
Atkins/New Atkins
Mark Sisson - Primal Blueprint
Gary Taubes - GCBC (released in the UK as The Diet Delusion) & WWGF
Brad Pilon - Eat-Stop-Eat (haven't read this yet, not sure if it's LC or just IF?)
John Yudkin - Pure, White and Deadly
Dr. Mike Eades - Protein Power
Robb Wolf - The Paleo Solution
Staffan Lindeberg - Food and Western Disease: Health and Nutrition from an Evolutionary Perspective

Any big names/books that I should get hold of?

Thanks,

Joe

[NU_nutrition_TS]

Hi Joe. I would say that you have listed all the major ones. The only one not on your list that I can think of, off the top of my head, is "Life Without Bread" by Wolfgang Lutz and Christian Allen. You can read a review of it, by the late Stephen Byrnes, here:
Life Without Bread Reviewed by Stephen Byrnes