Dean, I appreciate your posts much and am surprised that you can find the
time to reference them as well. Not to pick nits, but your statement below
has been said and implied a few times previously, and I wonder....

Dean:
>The only form of food which has been shown to be nutritionally potent
>enough for humans to live off of it exclusively for long periods of time
>with no ill effects or nutritional deficiencies is meat. (5)

>5) Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. "Adventures In Diet."  Harper's Monthly,
>December 1929, January 1930, February 1930.

But I am wary of listers seeing such statements and thinking they might
live healthfully on tenderloins, or even any fatty meat (as Troy seems to
say), alone. An obese person might lose plenty of weight on such a diet (as
they would fasting or on a frutarian diet) but if memory serves, even
Stefansson began to deteriorate on un-aged lean meat...

I am going on memory here, and probably memory of a summary of Stefansson's
experience at that, but my understanding was that he and the other members
of a "controlled" experiment ran into serious trouble on an all-meat diet
and only regained their robust health when organs were introduced into the
diet. Perhaps your (and others') use of the term "meat" is meant to include
any part of the animal, in which case such statements ring true, but I fear
that "meat" to most folks means muscle tissue. Further, I understood that
the meat and organs were eaten raw (and aged?) during the study. I am
hoping those more familiar with the actual articles/writings of Stefansson
can share the details and correct my memory if need be.

I am unaware that there are any listers here regularly eating raw organ
meats of the quality available many decades ago. While I have no problem
with "promoting" animal foods as important to many humans' health, I worry
that "man can live on meat alone" will be interpreted as a mono-diet of
burgers and steaks hot off the grill. I doubt anyone will come up with
research support for _that_. But who knows...  ;)

Cheers,
Kirt

Kirt Nieft / Melisa Secola
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