Eskimos were also very healthy on the same diet before they started eating
sweets and all.  I think the fat is a very important part of their diet.

Marshall

Charles Sutton wrote:

> There is a book, no doubt out of print, called; "The Book of the 7 Seas" by
> Peter Freuchen.  He was an Antarctic explorer who was marooned on an ice
> floe 2miles x 7 miles.  He wasn't rescued for seven years (7 years).  He
> lived on nothing but seal and polar bear meat for the whole time, and when
> he finally got back to civilization, his health was proclaimed to be
> perfect.........
> Interesting what?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stuff" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 7:47 AM
> Subject: Re: CS>Diabetes
>
> > The folks I've talked to who tried the Adkins diet had much good to say
> > about it.
> >
> > But my understanding, is that u can eat all the protein u can get in
> > u and die of starvation if u don't eat some carbs.
> >
> > Pure protein will eat u alive, so to speak. Only good in moderation.
> >
> > At 07:09 PM 11/13/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> > >Eating almost zero carbs for two weeks is NOT doing Atkins.  Atkins, even
> > >during induction, stresses a healthful variety of food, and stresses not
> > >going under 20 grams.
> > >Atkins is not a "diet" but a way of life, and involves eating a very
> > >balanced diet, with lots of fresh veggies and even some fruit, neither of
> > >which you can be eating if you are
> > >doing zero carbs.  People have strange ideas about Atkins.  Even in his
> > >older books he stressed balance and moderation.  In the older books he
> > >allowed for VERY brief introduction/induction period with largely no
> carbs.
> > >But research and understanding led him to modify that in all his later
> > >books.  Zero carbs is not healthy.    Joy
> > >
> > >
> > > > That's the first thing that I did.   Been on almost zero carbs for
> about 2
> > > > weeks now.   I have used the Atkins diet to lose weight since 1968.
> Have
> > > > lost 11 lbs in 12 days, but blood sugar still in 140 to 170 range.   I
> > >have
> > > > always heard that the Atkins diet would "cure" diabetes, and I'm going
> to
> > > > cure it..
> > >
> > >
> > >
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