I found this in my archive ;) Hope it helps


Participants:

Vilhjalmur Stefansson 48 yrs old (arctic explorer, single)
   a "...well developed man, though his muscles were soft and flabby"

Karsten Andersen 38 yrs old (fruit grower/accompanied VS on expedditions)
   a "...thin, well-developed adult with strikingly tanned skin and almost
bald"



Range of daily intakes over the one year period:

2000-3000 cal/d
100-140 g protein/d
200-300 g fat/d
7-12 g carbohydrate/d (glycogen from the meat)

"In this experiment, it was found that boiled meat was preferred to fried.
Broiled steaks and chops were used, - V.S. choosing lamb frequently while
K.A. ate beef almost exclusively."

"Both subjects received considerable quantities of bone marrow at various
times..."

"The men led somewhat sedentary lives" (during the experiment)


V.S.                                       K.A.

inital wt:     72.2 kg                     inital wt:     59.4 kg kg
after 1 year:  69.4 kg                     after 1 year:  58.0 kg


Date        Cholesterol (mg/100cc)        Date        Cholesterol (mg/100cc)
2/27/28        263 (before meat diet)          -         -  (before meat
diet)
3/2/28         315                         3/7/28       600
4/20/28        307                         3/23/28      285
5/28/28        286                         4/13/28      268
8/25/28        300                         5/28/28      310
12/12/28       226                        11/26/28      500
1/23/29        235                         1/9/29       400
3/6/29         212                         1/24/29      800 (after 20 hr
fast)
4/4/29         218 (2 wks general diet)    3/20/29      200 (2 wks general
diet)

About the cholesterol values, it was stated:
"The cholesterol values of both subjects were high. K.A. had a maximum of
800mg/100cc on one occasion. This did not persist after the meat diet was
discontinued and is therefore attributed to the large quantity of ingested
fat. A visible lipemia was likewise noted." (The latter refers to a
"cloudiness" in the drawn blood.)





Paul Sand
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>From: mark wilson <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Paleolithic Eating Support List <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [P-F] Adventures in Diet
>Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:15:14 -0700
>
>Thanks for the links Fredrik.  I printed these out and
>was having a great time reading through all the
>information until I came across this.
>
>Following are a few quotes from the man himself.  Keep
>in mind that Harvey Kellogg the obese vegetarian grain
>pusher and inventer of Corn Flakes outlived the
>carnivore Stefansson by 8 years.
>
>"The danger is that you may reason from this good
>health to a great longevity. But meat eaters do not
>appear to live long. So far as we can tell, the
>Eskimos, before the white men upset their
>physiological as well as their economic balance, lived
>on the average at least ten years less than we.....
>
>Perhaps it may be considered that meat is, overall, a
>stimulating diet, in the sense that metabolic
>processes are speeded up. You are then living at a
>faster rate, which means you would grow up rapidly and
>get old soon. This is perhaps confirmed by that early
>maturing of Eskimo women..... It may be that meat as a
>speeder-up of metabolism explains in part both that
>Eskimo women are sometimes grandmothers before the age
>of twenty-three, and that they usually seem as old at
>sixty as our women do at eighty.
>
>So you could live on meat if you wanted to; but there
>is no driving reason why you should......
>
>Damn!!
>
>Mark
>
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