sean mcbride <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Don't put too much faith in Wiseman's book. I don't think it has anything
>to do with vitamins and more to do with fat.  Speth and Spellman wrote a
>fair bit about this but I don't have the reference to hand.  If you eat
>protein but don't get enough fat (or carbohydrate) then the body needs to
>turn the protein into energy.  I don't understand the exact mechanism but
>what happens is that you keep increasing the amount of protein that you eat
>because you don't feel satiated and eventually (after a week or two) you
>die.  You will actually live longer if you fast.
>Protein starvation appeared amongst early explorers who ate rabbits or
>bison or any animal that was low in fat during the winter months.
>Traditional people would often walk away from animals that didn't have
>enough fat. Inuit would eat about 50/50 fat/protein to prevent this.

I assume you're right Sean.

Fredrik