My tone has been abrasive and rude?  Well... maybe I am the only one who
doesn't like to be subjected to neo-nazi and KKK rhetoric.  Honestly, I find
that much more abrasive then telling the poster of the article that included
that particular commentery that it was in poor taste.





On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Paleo Phil <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Keith Thomas wrote: "I have started an 'outline timeline' of the palaeo
> 'movement' on my own website ... http://www.evfit.com/tracking.htm"
>
> Great resource Keith, thanks! I had been planning on doing that myself some
> day, so you saved me some time. I don't know what to supply you with
> without
> knowing your requirements for addition to the list, but Vilhjalmur
> Stefansson is the biggest ommission. Here is some info on his contribution:
>
> 1921 - The Friendly Arctic, by Vilhjalmur Stefansson published. Stefansson
> touched on the Inuit diet in My Life with the Eskimo (1913), but he
> addressed it more thoroughly in The Friendly Arctic and this book inspired
> Dr. Blake Donaldson to prescribe a variation on the Inuit diet for his
> patients, starting in 1929. 13 February 1930 - Stefansson's all-meat/organ
> diet experiment results were published in "Prolonged Meat Diets With a
> Study
> Of Kidney Function And Ketosis," By Walter S. McClellan and Eugene F. Du
> Bois, in The Journal of Biological Chemistry. November 1935 - "Adventures
> in
> Diet" article published in Harper's Monthly Magazine in which Stefansson
> promoted the meat/organ diet of the Inuit "survivors of the stone age" who
> he said "were the healthiest people I have ever lived among," though he
> added the caveat that they had shorter lifespans than moderners. I believe
> Stefansson was the first to use the term "Stone Age diet" to describe the
> diet he was advocating. He also published books on diet including Not By
> Bread Alone (1946), The Fat of the Land (1956), and Cancer: Disease of
> Civilization? (1960). Not By Bread Alone helped inspire Owlsley "Bear"
> Stanley to adopt a meat, eggs, butter and cheese diet. Stefansson died of a
> stroke at age 82, having had two earlier strokes, but he attributed his
> strokes to many years of poor diet, including some years he did not stick
> to
> his Inuit-type diet after adopting it.
>
> I would also include Eaton's groundbreaking article:
>
> 1985 - Eaton, S. Boyd, and Konner, Melvin (1985) "Paleolithic nutrition: a
> consideration of its nature and current implications." The New England
> Journal of Medicine, vol. 312, no. 5 (Jan. 31, 1985), pp. 283-289.
>