Keith Thomas wrote:
> Here's a question for William and other Stefansson fans. The question
> arises as an aquaintance of mine is shifting to palaeo eating but is
> worried about becoming constipated.
> .
>
> Do you know what Stefansson experienced by way of frequency and
> ease of bowel movements? What the Inuit experience is in winter
> and spring when there's virtually no roughage to be had?
>
>   
I think that you have advised your friend well. Might add that animal 
fat is a lubricant, as well as nutrient and solvent.
Roughage is not needed - it's the friendly bacteria that make us move.

I don't remember Stefansson writing anything about bowel movements - in 
his time people were even more prudish than now about such things.
The only knowledge I have of the Inuit in this regard is from 1960, when 
the snow melted around their tents the winter's turds were revealed. 
They were proper turds, well formed, but maybe not as splendid as mine 
have been recently. :D

William