Here’s a family that would drive the FDA and food nazis nuts. They’d probably call Child Protective Services. But the kids look pretty healthy to me.
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Here’s a family that would drive the FDA and food nazis nuts. They’d probably call Child Protective Services. But the kids look pretty healthy to me.
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Quit staring at the wife, she’s married.
Very interesting how she got rid of her Lyme disease with beef. Also interesting that saturated fat is an anti-bacterial agent.
Glad they mentioned Stefansson and Andersen; when I casually mention to people that there ain’t no such thing as a dietary essential carbohydrate, nobody believes it until I tell them to look up that experiment.
I briefly read that as “all beer” diet and was very excited. Though, all-beef is a solid runner-up.
I was excited to read this cause steak is great but then the realization that this is a no beer diet was a turn off.
His steak diet is completely unbalanced because it has no carbs at all. A balanced diet requires steak and beer.
I’m not buying it.
While an all meat diet is doable, and arguably very healthy, these people claim they eat no organ meat, just muscle meat.
Since they do not appear to have scurvy, I would suggest someone is lying or deluded.
That and only eating once a day.
I often only eat once a day (unless you count coffee in the morning)
I think this is addressed in Taubes’ Good Calories, Bad Calories: IIRC, the argument is that carbs tend to deplete Vitamin C, so the body’s requirements for C are much less with a very low carb diet, and the amount found in animal muscle tissue is sufficient.
Oddly enough, one cure for scurvy is to eat lots of meat, especially organ meat. Think of Eskimos, for example. Vitamin C degrades, sometimes pretty rapidly depending on how the food is stored. It reacts to free-radicals and oxygen (which is also why it’s good for you) and that makes it unstable. In part I think they had to go with foods whose vitamin C levels were extremely high so that there would still be enough of it left after extended storage, and of course the sufficient quantities initially present in many fresh meats would keep dropping as the voyage went on. Anyway, things like that are why it was so hard to figure out what was going on to cause the scurvy problem.
As much as I love eating beef, doing an all beef diet would be as difficult for me as an all salad diet. Flavor matters, and steak is tasty, but like all things, eventually the enjoyment decreases with continual exposure. After awhile, I need something else. A beer. Something.
Still, I prefer not having any government tell me what I can or should eat.
They are living the dream.