Kristina Carlton wrote:

I have the Donaldson book. He put most people on the Pennington diet, 
which isn't all meat. A few tougher cases ended up on the 
meat/water/coffee diet.
> But what about Dr. Donaldson who put his sick/overweight patients on 
> an all
> meat/fat diet?
>
> On 7/26/06, Dr. Ron Hoggan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> I read, I think it was in _The Garden of Eating_, that one of the 
>> ways the
>> body maintains a constant ph is to remove calcium from the bones, 
>> using it
>> to buffer increasing acidity.
>>
>> I'm not so sure it is a sham.
>> Best Wishes,
>> Ron Hoggan
>>
>>
>> >The body never allows itself to deviate much from a certain acidity no
>> >matter what you eat....
>> >
>> >It's a sham in my opinion.
>>
>> >Marilyn
>>
>> >>Do you follow
>> >> these guidelines as Cordain suggests or do you think
>> >> it's a sham?
>>
>