Mary French wrote: > For those concerned about vitamins, Voegtlin's book The Stone Age Diet has a chart demonstrating that all the necessary vitamins >an be obtained from meat, with the exception of C, which apparantly can be manufactured by the body, >because Inuits eating a meat-only diet do not get scurvy (but sailors eating salt-preserved meats did) and D, >for which we need sunlight. Inuit have an average intake of vitamin C of 13.5 mg per day. That's what they achieve(d) by the vitamins in organs or stomach contents of the prey. Frederik pointed out which organs do have some vitamin C, spleen is best (the spleen is a main imune organ in the body). No higher primate has the ability to make vitamin C, including humans. While 13.5mg may be enough for an Inuit it would certainly at the lowest boundary for a normal environment. Inuit live nearly in absence of any germs or infection possibilities, while in the rest of the world the high oxidative stress by chemicals and sunlight and the high load of viruses and germs demand more. Much more. Recommendation has been raised to 70mg recently and many think that this is still a compromise. In particular when compared to the very high intakes of huntergatherers in the rest of the world. Inuit are supposed to have a genetic adaption to the very low level of Vitamin C. Likewise to the reduced level of imune activity due to the high intake of EPA. High Vitamin E intake also spares on vitamin C (E is the fat soluble antioxidant). I don't think it's a good idea to model one's diet after the Inuit, without having the Inuit living environment. No germs - little sunlight - very high long chain EFAs - all food uncooked and fresh. Btw: all necessary vitamins are in meat... I checked that for various meats. It's true, above some 3 lbs of meat per day if some liver is included. Whith the exception of vitamin C and B1. regards Amadeus S